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 having failed, the same person again advised to place a woman and some children near the tree, because savages commonly are not so shy of them as of men? and he bad them above all, shew her a friendly air and a smiling countenance. His directions were complied with; a woman with a child in her arms, came walking near the tree, carrying different sorts of roots and two fishes in her hands, which she held out to the savage, who desirous to have them, descended a branch or two but went back again. The woman still continued her invitation with an affable, pleasant countenance, accompanied with all possible signs of friendship such as laying her hand upon her breast, as if to assure her that she loved her, and would do her no harm; the savage was at last emboldened to come down the tree, and receive the roots and fishes; but the woman enticing her from the tree, by retiring insensibly, gave time to the men who were lying in wait for her, to advance and seize her. She never mentioned any thing of the grief and anixiety she felt on being taken, nor of the efforts she made to escape; but we may easily imagine both. The shepherd, and the rest who had caught and