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mifed thee. Thou carift never comprehend 
with what pleafure 1 difcharge this duty ; 
may it confer fome honour on my travels, 
and even ornament the relation of them. It 
will never reach thee in the bofom of thy 
peaceful defarts : but thou wert fenfible of my 
tears, and thy fraternal arms have preffed me 
to thy bofom. Whether thou art alive or 
numbered with the dead, I ftill feel it. The 
remembrance of me will be preferved longer 
and more glorioufly among thy favage hordes, 
than by empty trophies reared by the vanity 
of man. I confefs rr.yfelf unworthy of it, and I 
renounce it. But do thou, generous Klaas, 
young pupil of nature, whofe virtuous mind 
was never corrupted by our elegant inftitu- 
tions, preferve always the remembrance of thy 
friend. It is to thee alone that he ftill ad- 
drefles his tears and his tender regret. 
When ftretched out by the trunk of an old 
tree, at the mercy of a furious animal, which 
with its wandering eye was fearching for me 
every where around ; and which, if it had 
turned towards me, might have deftroyed me 
on the fpot — it was then that my heart, quite 
palpitating with terrorj was opened to the 
fenfations of a tender fentiment, infpired by 
0^2 one. 
