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felves the only living creatures in this place. I imagined it was-a 
dog, or Lome other animal, which had taken his night’s lodging 
there. Prefently I heard a loud figh, which feemed rather to be 
uttered by a human being than the animal I judged to be our 
iellow lodger. I raifed my head up gently to try if I could dif- 
cover any thing. Some cracks in the fide of the walls, and a few 
openings in the roof, afforded a faint light, and in order to afeer- 
tain the caufe of our alarm, I crept forward on my hands and 
knees. As the* diftance was but fhort, I foon reached the fpot 
from whence the founds came, and found two children naked, 
and lying upon deer-fkins. The children were fuddenly awaked, 
and feeing me approach them in the pofture deferibed, fancied 
themfelves in danger of an attack from fome wild beaft, and ran 
out of the room, crying to their mother for help. 
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