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ATTACKED BY LIONS
The next day Ernest and Jack, having been off again, returned from the woods together, with a fine boar which they had shot, and having heard that boar's head was good eating, we resolved to cook it with truffles, in the Otaheitan manner. Consequently Fritz and Ernest set to work, and dug a deep ditch, while I cleaned the head and heated some stones. When these preparations were finished, we placed the head, stuffed with truffles, and seasoned with salt, pepper, and nutmeg, in the ditch, and covered it with red-hot stones and a thick layer of earth. While our supper was cooking, we suspended the hams of the boar over the smoke of the fire, and sat down to talk over the events of the day, when, suddenly, a deep prolonged roar rang through the forest. It was the first time we had ever heard such unearthly tones.
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