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been reason to apprehend that he might have 
severed some of the heads of his pur- 
suers with equal ease. At length he fell 
pierced with numberless wounds. It was sup- 
posed that he had travelled to some distance 
from the place where he was first surprised, 
as his legs up to the knees were covered with 
mud. His hands and feet bore a great resem- 
blance to the human subject, excepting the 
usual shortness of the thumbs, which were si- 
tuated also closer to the wrist joint. His 
body was well proportioned, his chest broad 
and expanded, his waist narrow, his legs 
rather short, and his arms very long, though 
both possessed such sinew and muscle as left 
no doubt of their strength. The head was 
well proportioned to the body ; but the nose 
was prominent, and the mouth larger than in 
man. The eyes were large, and the chin, 
from ear to ear, fringed with a shaggy beard, 
curling luxuriantly on each side, and forming 
