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THE MAN OF THE WORLD. l3l
in property the owners could fuffer little;
as for ourfelves, faid they, the French are
the politeft enemies in the world, and, till
we are exchanged, will treat us with that
civil demeanor, fo peculiar to their nation.
We are not (addreffing themfelves to
me) among/^^^r, as you were.—Flow
it fared with them, I know not j I and
other inferior members of the crew, were
thruft into a dungeon, dark, damp, and
loathfome ; where, from the number con-,
fined in it, and the want of proper circu¬
lation, the air became putrid to the moft
horrible degree j and the allowance for
our provifion was not equal to two-pence-
a day. To hard living I could well
enough fubmit, who had been frequently,
accultomed, among the Cherokees, to
fubfift three or four days on a ftalk of
Indian corn moiftened in the firft brook I
lighted on; but the want of air and exer-
cife
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