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fracture of two of his limbs, and his enemy lay dead 
at his side. Unable to stand, he crawled from the 
thicket into which he had been thrown, and with ex- 
treme difficulty reached an opening in the jungle where 
a narrow path had been cut through the underwood, 
which gave him some hope of assistance in his present 
miserable plight. His hope was not long disappoint- 
d, for he had not been there many hours when a so- 
litary Pariah passing through the wood saw him, and 
readily offered that assistance which he so much 
needed. The Pariah had a miserable hovel upon the 
borders of the jungle, surrounded by beasts of prey and 
infested by noxious vermin, into which he bore the 
wounded man upon his shoulders, and laid him upon 
the coarse, tattered rug that formed his own bed. 
This poor Pariah was a despised outcast, who dwelt 
apart from his race, owing his daily subsistence to 
the uncertain produce of the forest. He dwelt in 
utter solitude, yet his human sympathies were not 
crushed, but full of robust life. He attended upon his 
suffering guest with unremitting attention for six 
weeks. Jumsajee, through the natural soundness of 
his constitution, had recovered from his injuries in this 
time. He now took leave of his host, to whom, in the 
overflowing of his heart, he gave all the money he 
happened to have about him ; which was a fortune to 
the needy Pariah, who received it with such acknow- 
ledgments as sufficiently showed the completeness of 
his destitution. The Parsee, upon his recovery, quitted 
the jungle, and at length reached his home, after an 
absence of two months, his daughter having already 
began to mourn for him as for one dead. 
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