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( 3 ) The Moors were determined to reſent this outrage, as they termed it, and ſent back the javelin; the aim was good; and Manſong fell to the ground, bathed in his blood. The inhabitants ſet up aloud ſcream and the Moors drove off. Manſong was oorne to his father's hovel upon the ſhoulders of his countrymen. When they had conveyed him to his hut, and laid him upon a mat, all the ſpectcators joined in lamenting his fate, by ſcreaming and howling in a moſt piteous manner. Onowaunee tore his hair in the bitterneſs of his grief; and caſting himſelf on the cold body of his ſon, expired in fight of his bewildered ſpectators!

Manſong was not, however, deprived of life.- The javelin had pierced his breaſt and a great eſ- uſion of blood ſucceeded. This occaſioned a fainting fit from which he shortly recovered. The aſtoniſhed people made frantic geſtures in token of their joy, and, being of the Mahornetan perſuaſion, exclaimed "La a et ella Mahomet afowl allabi."-"There is but one God, and Mahomet is his prophet."

Our hero was ſoon perfectly recovered, and reſolved to revenge the death of his father, whom he for a long time bewailed in the bitterneſs of lial grief. He collected his countrymen and exhorted them to ruſh upon the Moors & repair the oſſes they daily ſuſtained; but the people of Sim- ing could not be prevailed on.

The Sery ſoul of Marſong was not to be defeated by a cool refuſal. Another opportunity ſoon preſented itſelf; he then pictured to them the horrors nd calamities they were daily expoſed to, and gain exhorted them to revenge. The youths ow embraced the opportunity; and Manſong led hem to join the king of Kaar a who was then nging war with the perfidion king of B