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killing wolves and other creatures. When, with 
this weapon, (he had killed a hare with one ftroke, 
her cuftom was to flay, and devour her prey ; or, 
after over-running this fwift game, flie ufed to open 
the veins with her nails, drink up the blood, and 
throw away the reft. 
Her quickeft pace was a fort of flight, per- 
formed by Aiding along imperceptibly, in fuch a 
manner, that her body and feet hardly feemed to 
move. 
She poflefled no lefs addrefs and agility upon 
another element, — the water, where fhe dived 
with all imaginable eafe, and chofe her favourite 
food. 
Neither her age nor her native country was ever 
afcertained. Being interrogated upon one of thefe 
points, by figns, file pointed at a tree, without 
doubt becaufe flie had lived in forefts, and never 
feen any other dwelling. 
With a view of difcovering the place of her birth, 
L.a Condaraine Aiewed to her the roots of feveral 
American plants, in hopes that flie would recognize 
what file might have feen in her infancy j but this 
experiment proved ufelefs. 
She related with fenflbility, the lofs of her com- 
panion, of the fame age and fex. 
While both were fwimming in the river the 
Marne, as we fuppofe), they heard a report, that 
forced 
