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fast about my neck, but opened his legs a little to give me time
to recover my breath. When I had done s0, he thrust one of his
feet against my stomach, and struck. me so rudely on the side
with the other, that he forced me to rise up against my will. Having
got up, he made me walk under the trees, and forced me now and.
- then to stop, to gather and eat fruit such as we found. He never
left me all day, and when I lay down to rest by night, he laid

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himself down with me, always holding fast about my neck. Every
morning he pushed me to make me wake, and afterwards obliged
me to get up and walk, and pressed me with his feet. You may
judge then what trouble I was in, to be loaded with such a burden
as I could by no’means rid myself of.