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for such reflections now ; the savazve who was knocked down
recovered himself so far as to sit up upon the ground, and | per-
ceived 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 fiow, made a motion to
me to lend him my sword, which hung naked in a belt by my
side, which I did. He no sooner had it, but he runs to his
enemy, and at one blow, cut off his head so cleverly, no execu-
tionér 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 even cut off heads 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 under-
stand, 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 [ killed the other Indian so far off ; so point-
ing to him, he made signs to me to let him go to him; and I
bade him go, as well as I could. When he came to him, he
stood like one amazed, looking at him, turning 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 beck-.
oned him to follow me, making signs to him that more might
come after them. Upon this he made signs to me that he should
bury them with sand, that they might not be seen by the rest, if
they followed ; and so I made signs to him again 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 by the other
also ; I believe he had buried them both in a quarter of an hour.
Then calling him away, I carried him, not to my castle, but
quite away to my cave, on the farther part of the island: so I
did not let my dream come to pass in that part, that he came
into my grove for shelter. Here I gave him bread and a bunch
of raisins to eat, and a draught of water, which I found he was
indeed in great distress for, from his running: and having re-
freshed him, I made signs for him to go and lie down to sleep,
showing him a place where I had laid some rice-straw, and a