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^m's &in ; his black counteDance beclaifbcd 
with red ochre ; his eyes, inflamed with 
•rage, appeared as if ftarting from their 
fbckets ; his mouth ezpanded, and his teeth 
gnafoing and grinning with all the fury of an 
exaiperated demon. At thi_^ inftant, the 
iouUcn-femble of the figure would have been 
; a fabjeft highly defer ving the pencil of a 
The favage was diverted from his pur- 
poie, and dropt the affaygay. We inftant- 
ly proceeded to the river, raid ercffed it in 
purfuit of our guides. 1 hey were flanding 
on the fomniit of the mountain when we 
came upj and expreffed the utm.oft fitisfac- 
tJon at cur efcape. They ^ave us a terrible 
dcicription of the people we had juft left^ 
and aiuired us, -if tiie remainder of their 
hoordc had not been hunting at the time 
we got to the Fijlj-River^ not a man of us 
-would have furvived.— Our guides alfo told 
us, they were the moft abominable hoorde 
ihroughout the whole of Ca&aria. 
Our coBverfation lafted but a few mi- 
nuteSj when we refolved to defcend the 
mountain^ and purfue our journey. We 
. iiadfcarcely put ourfelves in motionj when 
a fcene of the moll exteniive and luxuriant 
beauties burft in a rnomient on our viev>^. 
The danger v/e had juft efcaped, engaged 
our attention fo entirely, v/hen wx gained 
tlie fummit, that we did not immediately 
perceive the world of beauties that nov/ lay 
-fpread before us. All ftocd for fome time 
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