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the blood to flow from his mouth. On re- 
ceiving a wound, he always put his hand over 
the injured part, with a human expression of 
agony. The natives, who had never before 
seen such an animal, although living at the 
distance of only two days’ journey from the 
vast forests of the island, were as much as- 
tonished at the sight as the crew of the ship, 
and assisted the latter to cut down the tree, in 
which the exhausted animal was hanging. 
The moment he perceived it to be falling, he 
exerted his remaining strength, and gained a 
second tree, and then a third, until he was 
finally brought to the ground. His assailants 
now gathered round and discharged arrows 
and other missiles at the animal. The first 
spear, made of a strong supple kind of wood, 
which would have resisted the strength of the 
strongest man, was broken by him “like a 
carrot and, hut for the dying state to which 
he was by this time reduced, there would have 
