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another, or to pay him according to his 
own valuation, his tears were dried up at once, 
his lamentation ceafed ; and fo fpeedily was 
this inconfolable man reconciled to his lofs, 
that, having called fome of his comrades 
to affift him, he fet himfelf inftantly to work 
to flay and cut into quarters his beft friend, 
in order to feaft on him the very fame day. 
In the mean time I direded my fcattered 
merchandize to be collefted. This occupied 
fo much time, that we were able to advance 
only five leagues the whole day. The next 
we made very little more progrefs; but this 
w^as owing to an accident of a different kind, 
to one of thofe terrible fouth-eaft winds, which 
arc the moft furprifing phenomena and ter- 
rible plagues of Africa. 
It began to threaten us in the morning ; and 
foon increafing every moment in violence, it 
overwhelmed us with fuch clouds of fand and 
gravel, that we were abfolutely blinded, and 
prevented from advancing. Its fury, increafed 
by the refiftance of the lofty mountains to the 
eaft, through the defiles of which it had to force 
its paffage, became at length fo great that wc 
were obliged to halt. 
Having unloaded the oxen, we placed our 
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