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that, if any one failed the lead in the mofi: 
fcrupulous performance of his duty, I would 
inftantly turn that man's miPirefs away. 
My refledions on the events that had occur- 
red rendering me melancholy, I took a walk; 
on the banks of the river to diffipate them; and 
near the camp I found, what had been fought 
at a diilance around, my three ftrayed animals. 
The fheep had been devoured by a tiger, and a 
few fragments of it only remained. Follo wing 
the traces of this bead of p^ey, I perceived, a 
little farther on, a bufli, the branches of which 
were fhaken within, as if forne animal were 
lurking in it, I fufpeded the movement was 
occafioned by the tiger, and that he lay con- 
cealed there to return at night and fuiiih his 
prey. 
In confequence of this idea, I loaded my 
fufee with two balls ; and, difcharging one bar- 
rel through the bufli, I advanced wich caution, 
having the lock of the other cocked. But 
what was my forrow to find, inftead of a tiger, 
one of my goats mortally wounded, and yield- 
ing its lafl: breath ! 
Happily this vexatious miftakewas Inflantly 
compenfated by a pleafing difcovery. On my 
