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i^oTHE M AN OF FEELING;
When I had fuffered thefe, I was turned
out of the camp, and. had betwixt three
and four hundred miles to travel before I
could reach a fea-port, without guide to
condudt me, or njioney to buy me provifi-
ons by the way. I fet out however, re-
Colved to walk as far as I could, and then
to lay myfelf^down and die. But I had
fcarce gone a mile, when I was met by the
Indian whom I had delivered. He prefied
me in his arms, and killed the maiks of
the laflics on my back a thouland times:
he led me to a little hut, where forre friend
of his dwelt, and after 1 was recovered of
my wounds, conduced me fo far on my
journey himfelf, and fent another In¬
dian to guide me through the reft.
When we parted, he pulled out a purfe
with two hundred pieces of gold in it:
Take this, faid he, my dear preferver,
it is all I have been able to procure.’*
‘‘ J begged him not to bring himfeif to
poverty for my fake, who (hould probably
have no need of it long j” but he in-