7 S TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 



place all our inflruments and baggage, about two o'clock 

 in the afternoon, near half way up this terrible mountain 

 of Taranta. 



There were five afTes, two of which belonged to Yafme, 

 and thele were fully as difficult to bring up the mountain 

 as any of our burdens. Moll of their loading, the property 

 of Yafine, we carried up the length of my inflruments ; and 

 it was propofed, as a thing that one man could do, to make 

 the unladen light afTes follow, as they had been well taken 

 care of, were vigorous and young, and had not ruffe red by 

 the fliort journies we had made on plain ground. They no 

 fooner, however, found themfeives at liberty, and that a 

 man was compelling them with a flick to afcend the moun- 

 tain, than they began to' bray, to kick, and to bite each o- 

 ther ; and, as it were with one confent, not only ran down 

 the part of the hill we had afcended, but, with the fame jo- 

 vial cries as before, (fmelling, I fuppofe, fome of their com- 

 panions) they continued on at a brifk trot ; and, as we fup- 

 pofed, would never flop till they came to Tubbo, and the 

 huts of the Hazorta. 



All our little caravan, and efpecially the mailers of thefe 

 animals, faw from above, in defpair, all our eagernefs to 

 pafs Taranta defeated by the feceffion of the mofl obfli- 

 nate of the brute creation. But there was no mending this 

 by reflection; at the fame time, we were fo tired as to make 

 it impoinble for the principals to give any afliflance. Bread 

 was to be baked, and fupper to be made ready, after this fa- 

 tiguing journey. 



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