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wounded It, as appeared from the blood oil hk 
fpear ; but he had at length fallen : fuch are 
the unfortunate confequences of the inferiority 
men without fire-arms have In thefe combats. 
We paid the laft duties to his fad remains * 
that is to fay, we covered his entrails and what 
remained of his mangled body with a heap of 
ftones. After this ceremony, which I made a 
point of performing with them, they left me, 
to carry the news of the mournful event to 
their comrades; and I, grieving at having 
been, though very innocently, the Involuntary 
caufe of the death of a human being, gave up 
my fcheme of hunting, and returned to my 
camp. 
I had foon exhaufted every thing both thefe 
cantons offered worthy of notice for my col- 
ledion ; and I had no wifli remaining, but 
that of quitting them as foon as pofFible. But 
to this the flate of my cattle was an obftacle. 
Obliged to feed upon a kind of grafs to which 
they were unaccuftomed, they had become ab- 
folute fkeletons. I never went to fee them 
without being filled with defpair. Thofe of 
my people who had been fent to guard them, 
when they were relieved and returned to the 
camp, 
