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being unavailing caused him to make use of intimidation, 
for which all his most violent gesticulations were brought 
into play— so that he appeared at first to gently and 
persuasively implore, and then admonish with a kind of 
brotherly wrath ; which being also unsuccessful, was fol- 
lowed by an apparent determination to inflict summary 
chastisement upon the obdurate deity which he invoked, 
and this being unminded, caused him to pour out the 
whole phial of his vindictive anger in a bitterness of 
manner that X find myself unable to describe. The 
short man who accompanied him heard and saw it all 
with great apparent respect, and even awe, crouching 
down behind his countryman in the stern of the boat. 
The squall soon passed over, and the necromancer 
appeared to apply the “ flattering unction to his soul 3 * 
of his being the principal cause of its subsidence. We 
soon arrived on board ; and our two wild companions 
feasted their eyes upon the various things around until 
they were tired. The captain then gave the magician a 
shirt and an old pair of trousers, which he caused him to 
put on, and we then rowed our two wild visitors towards 
the land ; but before they got near to the shore, we saw 
our enchanter friend take off his shirt and trousers, and 
rolling them up place them under his arm. Arrived 
within a ship’s length of the beach, he leaped overboard 
followed by his companion; they quickly made their 
way through the yielding water, and penetrating the 
thick woods which grew upon the borders of the sea, 
disappeared from our view. 
We now again crowded all sail for the Ladrone 
