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 AN ATTACK. 483 was greeted with the joyful congratulations of hîs friends, who had hurried to the foot of the fall to assure themselves of his fate. The cannibals had ail dîsappeared in the surging waters. Unprotected in their fall, they had doubtless ceased to breathe before reaching the lowest depths of the cataract, where their lifeless bodies would soon be dashed to pièces against the sharp rocks that were scattered aiong the lower course of the stream.