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 him. I hastily fetched my gun; and having a short cut down the hill, I clapped myself in the way between the pursuers and the pursued, crying aloud to him that fled, and beekoningbeckoning [sic] then my hand for him to stop: then rushing at once upon the foremost, knocked him down with the stock of my piece, and then shot him dead. The poor savage who had flcdfled [sic] was so tcrrifiedterrified [sic] at the noise of my gun, that he stood stock still, but seemed rather inclined to fly than to come towards me. However, when I gave him signs of encouragement, he came nearer,

kneeling down every ten or twelve steps; on his coming close again, he laid his head upon the ground, and placed my foot upon it.

He was a well-made handsome fellow, of about twenty-six years of age, of an olive coloured complexion, with long black hair. He had a small nose, that was not flat; and fine teeth,