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not knowing the pacific meafures which I was 
purfuing with one of their kings, and not be- 
ing acquainted with my manner of thinking 
refpeding them, they might every moment 
come to attack my camp ; and the perfon 
whom I chiefly dreaded, was he to whom 
I had entrufted the conditions of my embafTy. 
Having feen with his own eyes what number 
of people remained with me, and my ftrength 
as well as my weaknefs, and knowing from my 
own information my plan and the place where 
we were to meet, it was in his power either to 
corrupt fuch of my people as accompanied him, 
or to betray and a^^a^Ilnate them by the way. 
What was there at that time to prevent him 
from coming unexpectedly at the head of 
a numerous party, and falling upon me, and, 
by one of thofe ftrokes too common in war, ef- 
facing my name from the number of the living? 
Imuft openly confefs, that with the well-formed 
defign of felling my life at a dear rate, my ter- 
ror increafed in proportion to the precautions 
which I every day took in refpedl to my fafe- 
ty; but, as the time after the departure of my 
envoys increafed, my thoughts became a 
little calmer: long abfence leffened the dan- 
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