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running towards us with a!! their fpeed, crofled 
the camp like lightning, and difappearcd. My 
firft movement was to run to arms, and that 
of my people to cry out the Bofhmen w^ere 
coming. Thefe Bofhmen conftituted the grand 
objed of their fear; fo that, as there was none 
by which they were fo powerfully affedled, it 
was always the firft that prefqnted itfelf to their 
imaginations. 
This was a danger of which I thought little ; 
and what convinced me was, the behaviour of 
my dogs on the one hand, who did not move 
from their places, joined with the alarm of 
Kees on the other, who flew to me, and clung 
clofely round me. Certainly neither my ape 
nor the oxen would have teftified fuch alarm 
at the approach of Boflimen ; and my dogs, 
inftead of making a point as it were, would 
have run to meet and attack them, Befides, 
the oxen, after having fled beyond us from 
fear, had inftindively returned ; and their eyes, 
as well as thofe of all my other animals, great 
and fmall, were turned in the fame diredion ; 
which clearly indicated to me both the place 
and nature of the danger, and that it was a tiger 
or a lion. 
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