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258 GETTING RID OF ONK’S ENEMIES.

so far as to sit up upon the ground, and I pertiided that my
savage began to be afraid; but when I saw that, I presented my
other piece at the man, as if I would shoot him. Upon this my
savage, for so I call him now, made a motion to me to lend him
my sword, which hung naked in a belt by my side; soI did. He
no sooner had it, but he runs to his enemy, and at one blow cut
off his head as cleverly, no executioner in Germany could have
done it sooner or better; which I thought very strange for one
who I had reason to believe never saw a sword in his life before,
except their own wooden swords. However, it seems, as I learned
afterwards, they make their wooden swords so sharp, so heavy,
and the wood is so hard, that they will cut off heads even with
them, ay, and arms, and that at one blow too. When he had
done this, he comes laughing to me in sign of triumph, and brought
me the sword again, and with abundance of gestures, which I did
not understand, laid it down with the head of the savage that he
had killed just before me.

But that which astonished him most, was to know how I had
killed the other Indian so far off. So pointing to him, he made
signs to me to let him go to him; so I bade him go as well as I
could. When he came to him he stood like one amazed, looking
at him, turned him first on one side, then on the other, looked at
the wound the bullet had made, which it seems was just in his
breast, where it had made a hole, and no great quantity of blood
had followed; but he had bled inwardly, for he was quite dead.
He took up his bow and arrows and came back, so I turned to go
away, and beckoned to him to follow me, making signs to him

-that more might come after them.

Upon this he signed to me that he should bury them with sand,
that they might not be seen by the rest if they followed; and s0
I made signs again to him to do so. He fell to work, and in an
instant he had scraped a hole in the sand with his hands, big
enough to bury the first in, and then dragged him into it, and
covered him, and did so also by the other. I believe he had
buried them both in a quarter of anhour. Then calling him away,
I carried him, not to my castle, but quite away to my cave, on the.
further part of the island. So I did not let my dream come to