“8 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 
place all our inftruments and baggage, about two o'clock 
in the afternoon, near half way up this terrible mountain 
of Taranta. | 
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THERE were five afles, two of which belonged to Yafine 
and thefe were fully as difficult to bring up the mountain 
as any of our burdens. Mott of their loading, the property 
of Yafine, we carried up the length of my inftruments ; and 
it was propofed, as a thing that one man could do, to make 
the unladen light affes follow, as they had been well taken 
care of, were vigorous and young, and had not fuffered by 
the fhort journies we had made on plain ground. They no 
fooner, however, found them{feives at liberty, and that a 
man was compelling them with a ftick 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 ftop till they came to Tubbo, and the 
huts of the Hazorta. 
Aut our little caravan, and efpecially the mafters of thefe 
animals, faw from above, in defpair, all our eagernefs to 
pafs Taranta defeated by the feceflion of the moft obfti- 
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 impoffible for the principals to give any affiftance. Bread 
was to be baked, and fupper to be ‘made haggpe —" fa- 
tiguing journey. 
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