It was some time before we could recover our senses and
inquire into the matter. It appeared, that at the very moment the puma
was crouching to take his leap, the _Padre_ awaking, gave the scream:
this terrified the animal, who dashed through the canvass of the tent
above me with the _Padre's_ blanket entangled in his claws.

Poor _Padre_! he had fainted, and continued senseless till daylight,
when I bled him with my penknife. Fear had produced a terrible effect
upon him, and his hair, which the evening before was as black as jet,
had now changed to the whiteness of snow. He never recovered,
notwithstanding the attention shewn to him by the Indians who
accompanied him to Saint Louis. Reason had forsaken its seat, and, as I
leaned some time afterwards, when, being in Saint Louis, I went to the
mission to inquire after him, he died two days after his arrival at the
Jesuits' college.

As to the puma, the Indians found it dead at the bottom of the chasm,
completely wrapped in the blanket, and with most of its bones broken.

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