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36 TRAVELS
felves the only living creatures in this place. I imagined it was a
dog, or fome other animal, which had taken his night’s lodging
there. Prefently I heard a loud figh, which feemed rather to be
uttered by a human being than the animal I judged to be our
fellow lodger. I raifed my head up gently to try if I could dif-
coyer any thing. Some cracks in the fide of the walls, and a few
openings in the roof, afforded a faint light, and in order to afcer-
tain the caufe of our alarm, I crept forward on my hands and
knees. As the diftance was but fhort, I foon reached the {pot
from whence the founds came, and found two children naked,
and lying upon deer-fkins. The children were fuddenly awaked,
and feeing me approach them in the pofture defcribed, fancied
themfelves in danger of an attack from fome wild beaft, and ran.
out of the room, crying to their mother for help.
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