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ing With rage. I galloped up to him, with 
the defign to drive him towards the caravan | 
but he anfwered my endeavours by a ftroke of 
his horn, which gored my horfe in the flank 
and tore his leg ; and the horfe, giving a fud- 
den fpring, fell down on his fide, threw me ten 
paces from him, and ran away. 
Fortunately, in my fall, I retained faft hold 
of my gun ; and this circumftance faved my 
life. The ox rufhed upon me, with his nofc 
to the ground, ready to gore me with his horns 
and tofs me into the air, when I cocked my 
piece, and, by one of the luckieft fhots I ever 
fired, laid him dead at the diftance only of a few 
yards from me. 
The animal was the property of one of the 
Kaminouquas who attended me. At this 
moment his matter came up out of breath to 
feize him and bring him back ; but he arrived 
only in time to fee him yield his laft breath. 
At this fight the poor Kaminouqua was diftradl- 
ed ; he began to weep like a child, and to launch 
out in praife of his ox, which he faid was the 
beft and the moft dear to him he had ever 
poflelTed, and that he fhould regret the lofs 
during his whole life. 
However, when I promifed to give hita 
another 
