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tended to be a little obftinate; but Narlna, 
taking me by the hand, dragged me along 
with her, till, being out of fight, Ihe could call 
out to her companions that they might quit 
the water, and drefs. 
Narina becoming more and more familiar, 
continued to walk with me towards my tent, 
fporting as freely with me as fhe would have 
done with her brother, her parents, or her 
companions. She joked with me after her 
own manner, and teazed me, fometimes ftrug- 
gling to difengage herfelf from my arms, 
and fometimes, to avoid me, jumping over 
bufhes, ravines, and the broadeft ditches. Be- 
ing then young and vigorous, long inured to 
the moft fatiguing labours, and a life a thou- 
fand times harder than that of thefe favages 
themfelves, I could have defied an European 
Hercules: but whether it was cuftom, orfome 
remains of gallantry, that made me employ 
only the half of my ftrength againft the young 
Narina, or that in reality flie fhewed more 
addrefs, and was more agile in her motions, 
fhe compelled me to defift, and I yielded under 
her efforts ; but, above all, when fhe efcaped 
from me, and got to a little diftance, fhe out- 
flripped me in the courfe, and vv^as foou 
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