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A VOYAGE TO 



1780. in one of the huts an elderly man, who was in a grear 

 fright, and preparing to make off with the mod valuable 

 of his effects that he could carry. However, I was fortu- 

 nate enough, in a very little time, fo intirely to difpel his 

 fears, that he came out, and called to the two men who 

 were running away to return. The old man and I now 

 foon came to a perfect underftanding. A few figns, parti- 

 cularly that moft fignificant one of holding out a handful 

 of dollars, and then pointing to a herd of buffaloes, and 

 the fowls that were running about the huts in great nura^ 

 bcrs, left him without any doubts as to the real objects of 

 our vifiu He pointed toward a place where the town flood, 

 and made us comprehend, that by going thither, all 

 our wants would be fupplied. By this time the young 

 men, who had fled, were returned, and the old man or- 

 dered one of them to conduct us to the town, as foon as an 

 obftacle fhould be removed, of which we were not aware. 

 On our firfl coming out of the wood, a herd of buffaloes, 

 to the number of twenty at leaft, came running toward us, 

 toiling up their heads, muffing the air, and roaring in a 

 hideous manner. They had followed us to the huts, and 

 flood drawn up in a body, at a little diftance ; and the old 

 man made us underfland, that it would be exceedingly dan- 

 gerous for us to move, till they were driven into the woods; 

 but fo enraged were the animals grown at the fight of us, 

 that this was not effected without a good deal of time and 

 difficulty. The men, not being able to accomplish it, wc 

 were furprized to fee them call to their affiflance a few little 

 boys, who foon drove them out of fight. Afterward, wc 

 had occafion to obferve, that in driving thefe animals, and 

 fecuring them, which is done by putting a rope through a 

 hole which is made in their noftrils, little boys were always 



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