Adieu, my
last hour is nearer than I expected; I expire!"--In reality, he died
that moment.

Some children, who had been witnesses of my grief, and the cause of it,
soon spread the news through the village. My master's sister run up to
us, and went off immediately laughing very heartily, and saying that it
would be so much milk saved. Some neighbours, who I believe were moved
to pity me, by my sobbing, came to carry me away from the lifeless body.
They offered me some milk, though at the same time they turned my
distress into ridicule. "Why," said I to them, "do you condemn the tears
which I shed for my friend? I have seen you in similar cases, roll upon
the sand and stones. I have seen your eyes bathed in tears. Do you
suppose our souls are not possessed of the same feelings with yours?
Deceive not yourselves. In this common calamity we are all brothers and
friends." I could not say more to them. I found it impossible to remain
long in the presence of these beings, who had the human shape, but were
more ferocious than the most formidable and horrid animals.

Although I had not been acquainted with M. Devoise previous to our
departure from France, I was very sensible of his loss. The pleasantness
of his manner, his equal temper, acquaintance, and, above all, the
similarity of our situation, had contributed to connect us in the
strongest ties of friendship. I regretted his loss exceedingly; I went
into the fields, to meet again with the only companion I had now
remaining, and we retired together with our flocks, the keeping of which
became daily a more disagreeable task, on account of the scarcity of
pasturage.

On our arrival, we were ordered to lift up the body of our friend, and
bury it in a deep ditch, that, as the Arabs said, they might hide from
the eyes of their children, the sight of a Christian. We paid him this
last duty with much pain, for our weakness was so great, that we could
not carry him, and were therefore obliged to draw him by the feet near
three quarters of a league; and the earth which surrounded the ditch we
had dug, having failed under me, I fell in first, and I believe I
fainted away under the weight of his carcass.

Some days after, we quitted these fields to seek a more fertile spot. We
encamped in the neighbourhood of different tribes. I recollected by the
name Denoux, one of the seamen, who had been enslaved together with me.
I asked him the news of his companions. "Six of them," he told