Page:Account of a most surprising savage girl, who was caught wild in the woods of Champagne, a province in France.pdf/20

 to climb and to leap from one tree another like a squirrel.-She was  up at sea, where she was, with other children set in a little round canoe,  was covered with a skin that drew  her middle like a parse and  the water from getting in, for she  it is the manner in their country to  the children early out to sea in such canoes in order to accustom them to  the sea, which breaks over them,  though it may overturn the canoe,  not sink it When she was taken up, she was put aboard a great ship, carried to a warm country, and sold as a slave. The person having sold her having first painted her black with a view to make her pass for a slave.

She says further of the country from whence she was carried away, that the people there had no clothing but skins, and make no use of fire at all, so that when she came to France, she could not bear the fire and hardly even the close air of a room, or the breath of persons who were near hear. There were, she says another sort of men in this country, who, were bigger and stronger than her people, and all covered with hair; and those people were at war with her