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jfulky. A herd oF ihe Samhre deer, very wild, had 

 Jakcn up their rcfidence near the remains of the village 

 of Tdrtnaira^ where we law likewife abundance of" 

 green pigeons and peacocks. 



FixDi^'G the road thus far good, I had determined 

 to proceed by this route to Mahtin ; but the Corvhicrs 

 diffuaupd me from it ; alledging, at the fame time, 

 that if I pleafed, I might attempt it, but that they 

 were convinced it would be impafiable in the hilly- 

 part for cattle of any -defcription; and that the road 

 was of fo difficult a nature, that I could not hope to 

 reach Mahtin by night; although the diltance was 

 only fifteen miles. To have involved myfelf in fo 

 arduous an attempt, without the profpeft of any re- 

 frefhment, and, after clambrring over precipices all 

 day, to have run the rifk of being benighted in fo 

 wild and defolate a part of the country, would have 

 been highly imprudent; I therefore abandoned the 

 idea, and determined on taking the road by Kurhy. 



March 5th. About an hour before day-light, our 

 route commenced for about a mile in the bed of the 

 Bockyc river, which led us into the bed of the Hujl.oo^ 

 where the flream was conhderable, and very rapid. 

 We crofTed it twice, but in this we were not fo fortu- 

 nate as in the former, where we had found a hard 

 bottom ; for the wetnefs of the road, and the quick- 

 fands in which our cattle were frequently involved, 

 rendered this part of our journey very toilfome and 

 diftreliing. 



We arrived this day at Pory^ having left fome lofty 

 ranges of hills to the weitward. At this place a Coxv- 

 A/er chief came to viht me; or rather his curiolity 

 brought him to fee a white man. He was accompanied 

 by his fon, and grandfon ; both Itout and large 

 limbed men for mountaineers, though not fo well 

 fhaped as the Goands. We llared at each other a lit- 

 tle while; for our languages being totally unintelligi- 

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