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hold thehtened by all

nity, until they were redeehts have adventured their overthrow, but to

their own instead; for they have all been slain, or captured, or forced

to make a hasty retreat To crown their enormities, if any man now

attempts their destruction, they, immediately upon his defeat, put one

or ht of

all passers-by; so that they have been h we have burned, for years, to attack these demons

and destroy them, dared not, for the sake of their captives, risk the

adventure, before we should have reached at least our earliestfor the atte only the resolution, and not the

experience necessary for the undertaking, ent and consulted a lonely

woman of wisdom, who lives not very far from here, in the direction of

the quarter froave us what seems to us the best of advice She first inquired what

experience we had had in arms We told her we had been well exercised

from our boyhood, and for some years had kept ourselves in constant

practice, with a view to this necessity