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 came almot up to my Chin; when bending mine Eyes downwards as much as I could, I perceived it to be a human Creature not ix inches high, with a Bow and Arrow in his Hands, and a Quiver at his Back. In the mean time, I felt at leat forty more of the ame kind (as I conjectured) following the firt. I was in the utmot Atonihment, and roared o loud, that they all ran back in a fright; and ome of them, as I was afterwards told, were hurt with the Falls they got by leaping from my ides upon the Ground. However, they oon returned, and one of them, who ventured o far as to get a full ight of my Face, lifting up his Hands and Eyes by Way of Admiration, cryed out in a hrill, but ditinct Voice, Hekinah Degul: The others repeated the ame Words everal times, but I then knew not what they meant. I lay all this while, as the Reader may believe, in great Uneaines: at length, truggling to get looe, I had the fortune to break the Strings and wrench out the Pegs that fatened my