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to recall a mlfgulded multitude to their fenfes, 
than to humble them in their own eyes by 
fliowlng them the defpicablenefs of their con- 
duct, or to take from them their chief. With 
refped: to the reft of the infurgents, they were 
delivered over to the clemency of the captaia 
and officers of the veffel, by whom a general 
amneriy was granted j and they all returned to 
their duty. 
Having left the (hip, and being once agaia 
on (hore, we were eager to repair to our com- 
pany, to relate the circumftances of the danger 
we had efcaped, and of which upon leaving 
them we had no fufpicion. 
How little did I exped that this Angular ad- 
venture wasdeftined to be followed by a new 
mortificati( n, of which the confequences svere 
long in my memory, and that, in quitting for 
a day my dcareft friends, I fhould have to la- 
ment the lofs of one of them, and fpeedily to 
prepare myfelf for feeing him no more ! 
As I drew near to the habitation of Slaber, 
I dircharged, as I had been accuftomed to do, 
xnj fufee, to inform them of our arrival, and 
to invite them to meet us. In fpite of my re- 
peated fignals, no perfon appeared i a filence 
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