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Rh Friends, who have perued the Papers from which I am compiling the Hitory of his Life.

After Tom had been at Sea ome Years, he was unfortunately cat away, on that Part of the Coat of Africa inhabited by the Hottentots. Here he met with a trange Book, which the Hottentots did not undertand, and which gave him ome Account of Preer John’s Country; and being a Lad of great Curioity and Reolution he determined to ee it; accordingly he et out on the Puruit, attended by a young Lion, which he had tamed and made o fond of him, that he followed him like a Dog, and obeyed all his Commands; and indeed it was happy for him that he had uch a Companion; for as his Road lay through large Woods and Forets,that were full of wild Beats and without Inhabitants, he mut have been oon tarved or torn in Pieces, had he not been both fed and protected by this noble Animal. Rh