AFRICA. 
the damages of the ftorm. On awaking, 
each found hunfelf a very different man ; we 
were completely revived, and one of the firft 
effeds we experienced from this unhoped-for 
change was a devouring hunger. Thus dif- 
pofed, what a refource did we find In thofe an- 
telopes, which the evening before we had fo 
much defpifed ; and what an eager appetite at 
once fucceeded to the univerfal difguft we had 
conceived for them ! 
While we were employed in making the 
neceffary preparations to drefs them, I difco- 
vered with furprife, that one of my people was 
miffing. As it vva^s poffible that he might have 
loft himfelf in the neighbourhood, I fent one 
of his comrades in queft of him; but he having 
returned without finding him, I began to be 
uneafy ; and for this I had the more reafon, as 
no one could tell me whether it was before or 
after the ftorm that he abfented himfelf. Our 
uneafinefs was foon changed into alarm, and 
each endeavoured to account for his difap- 
pearance. The caufes they affigned were, 
however, the reverfe of confolatory : according 
to fome, he muft have been affaffmated by the 
Boftimen ; and according to others, deftroyed 
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