The Life And Adventures of Alexander Selkirk, the Real Robinson Crusoe : a Narrative Founded On Facts
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TOM STARBOARD. 91 BIRDS AND BEASTS OF SOUTH AMERICA. Bathing—A shock— Electrical Eel— The Bell-bird— The Sloth- how slandered. One day, about noon, as I came to a pleasant looking pond or lake, beautifully over-shadowed with trees, the thought struck me that I would take a bath. But I had 92 WANDERINGS OF scarcely entered the water, before I felt a shock like that of an electrical machine, and a very severe one, too. "An earthquake?" you will perhaps say. By no means. The shock was given by an ...electrical eel. However, it instantly took away all my strength, and nearly all my senses, too ; and I believe, in my heart, I should never have been here, but for help. It was close to a Missionary village, and an Indian woman happening to come down to the pond to dip up water, just at that moment, and guessing my situation, lost no time in dragging me out before the animal h^d;an op- portunity of repeating his shocks. / 7 ^ -.. .-,,, I had now reached a better country. The mornitig^ especially, were uncommonly beautiful.
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