As he lay
struggling amongst the stones at the entrance of my cave, I had just
observed an arrow in his side, when a shout issued from the rocks
above, and looking up, I beheld a young chieftain, with a bow in his
hand, leaping from cliff to cliff, till springing from a high
projection on the right, he alighted at once at the head of the wounded
deer.
"I emerged from the recess that concealed me, and addressed him with
the benediction of the morning. His plaided followers immediately
appeared, and with a stroke of their ready weapons slew the animal.
The chief left them to dress it for their own refreshment; and on my
invitation, entered the cell to share a hermit's fare.
"I told him who I was, and what had driven me to this seclusion. In
return, he informed me of a design he had conceived, to stimulate the
surrounding chiefs to some exertions for their country; but as he never
mentioned his name, I concluded he wished it to remain unrevealed, and
therefore I forbore to inquire it. I imparted to him my doubts of the
possibility of any single individual being able to arouse the
slumbering courage of thoughts. The arguments he means to use are few
and conclusive.
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