NARRATIVE OF CARLI. 
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the other side of the hedge, three great lions, 
" roaring that they made the earth shake.'* 
Happily the hedge proved too high for them ; 
and Carh, in the morning, finding that his com- 
panion's rest had been undisturbed, warmly con- 
gratulated him on his escape, since otherwise, 
" he might have gone to heaven, without know- 
" ing which way." Soon after, as they were tra- 
velling, a still more serious alarm arose. A con- 
flagration, kindled at some distance, drove to- 
wards them all the wild beasts of the district. 
The negroes immediately sprung to the tops of 
trees ; and the worthy fathers, little accustomed 
to such feats of agility, were with difficulty drag- 
ged up by ropes. There was no time to be lost ; 
for such a host immediately arrived, that the 
whole party would scarcely have made one 
" good meal for them." He enumerates tigers, 
lions, wolves, pocasses, and rhinoceroses. These 
all looked up, and eyed them very earnestly ; but 
the fire behind, and the arrows which the negroes 
shot down upon them, speedily induced them to 
forbear any further pause. 
Besides the inhabitants of the libattes, or vil- 
lages, there is another class who wander in the 
fields, sleep under trees, and live almost in a state 
of nature. From among these, there was brought 
one day " a handsome young woman, stark na- 
" ked," for the purpose of baptism. The mis- 
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