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took away all the water and camels, and left the Tucorcr^r to die with third. You allced me when I faw him after his leaving Chendi? I tell you it was at a ftation of the Bifha- reen, two hours before you come to Umarack; his body- lay upon the fand v/ithered and dried, but not corrupted;■ his hough- of the right leg, and back-fmew^ of the left, jull above the heel, were cut afunder by a fword. The wounds through his body were apparent. The lance^ I apprehend, had feme crooks below the head of it, as is their cuftom, becaufe a confiderabie quantity of his bowels were drawn out at the back. He had two ■ wounds upon his head, which I fuppofe were given him after he was dead, for they had cut through the fkull entirely, and any one of them would have been mortal in a moment. Ifmaei and the Barbarin threw fand over him.. For my part, I paid no fort of refpe(5t to the carcafe of a man, who, wherr living, had fliewed fo little for my. prefervation. We ■went to the right, and followed fome footfleps;. we faw three men dead, all big and corpulent; they were allthruft through with three lances; each of them had his throat cutj and one his jaw. broken,.

" All the next day the road was ftrewed with the bo- dies of the Tucorory, and the day after, at nine o'clock in the morning, we found his horfe dead; the day following' •we found dead bodies of people, who had perilhed with thirft, fcattered here and there like the tracft of a purfuit after a "battle; their dry bottles, made of gourdsj were grafped in .heir hands, and fomcheld them to their mouths as if fucking chcm. God, as I fay, puniflied this man, by allowing his' pride and prefumption to blind him; for, had we joined Qi\r. companies, there could not have been a better place.'

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