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Wc had proceeded but a fiiort way, af-cr 
receiving this inftance of female iiberaiity, 
when we were ftopt by tv/eive Cajfrce mcn^ 
armed with fpears^ and clothed in ieepard' 
fkins. • Our s^mdes, alarmed at the appear- 
ancc of ti>eie lavages-, fiew to the- banks of 
the gnat Fifo-River^ which at that time- was 
not more than two hundred yards frona the 
place where we fcbod. "We repeatedly .called 
to .thcnri ito return. ^ but in vain ; they ini- 
niediately -crofied the bed of -the river, v/hich 
was dry* .and^ having* reached the oppofiie 
fliore, aicended , an ^adjoining mountain 
with the utiJioft precipitation. 
The? lavages brandifiied their fpearSj and 
appeared by their geflnres to menncc the ck- 
ftruciion of us alb We co^j:d not iintV- -1 
what they laid ; but we fuppofed m^y ue- 
manded from us whatever articles we poi^ 
feMcd ; and as thefe principally coniiilcd of 
the little ftock of proviiions wc had left, and 
our clothes, we determined not to part \;ith 
cither. 
One of my people ' had a knife, which 
was llunq; over his Ihoulder. A Cafiree , 
perceiving it, made a fiiatch at the handle ; 
but the owner refiftincr^ he. loll his hoUL 
This lb enras^ed the ikvacre, that he Hfted 
up his afjaygay with an apparent ' intention 
of difpatching the cbjecl- of his rcfentmcnt. 
At the moment he flood in this attitude, 
a more aniihed pidure of horror, or what 
v/e iinderftand of the infernals^ ■ was perhaps 
•never feen bef:)re. The lava g-e wore a leop- 
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