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28 Then rifing, they proceeded through lofty groves of pine, and open fields that feemed to bend under the heavy hand of Ceres. At laft, difappointment and fatigue prevailed on them to return home, they had gone farther than they apprehended ; but paffing along the bank of the river within a few miles of Mr. KIT- TLE'S, they efpied a fat doe walking fecurely on the beach, which PETER foftly approach ing, levelled his piece with fo good an aim that the animal dropped inftantly at the expiofion. This feeming fuccefs was, however, the origin cf their calamities ; for immediately after, two favages appeared, directed in their coiirfe by the firing. Setting up a loud yell, they ran up to the brothers and diicharged their fire-arms. Mr. KITTLE ftartcdback, but PETER receiv ed a brace of balls in his bofom. He recoiled a few fleps back, and then funk down incom- paffed by thofe -.leaclly horrors of which in the morning he haJ a prefentiment. Mr. KITTLE ftood awhile aghail, like a perfon juft waked, from a frightful dream ; but on feeing the In dian advancing to tear the fcalp from his dying brother, he fuddenly recollected himfeif, and ihot a bullet through his head : then grappling with