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** order to carry away a part of their flocks, 

 " and afterwards fell them at Fort Dauphin, 

 *^ told me, that he owed his fafety merely 

 ** to the knowledge he had of the high and 

 *' fteep mountains by which their valley is 

 " furrounded, Remouzai had been fcveral 

 ** times among the Kimos, and was em- 

 ** ployed as a guide by Maimbou's father, 

 ** when he ventured to attack them. The 

 ** firfl incurfion had no fuccefs, but the fe- 

 ** cond was much more fatal i Maimbou s 

 *' brother was killed ; his fmall army was 



put to flight ; and the number of thofe 

 ** who efcaped thefe pigmies was very in- 

 *' confiderable, Notwithftanding all my 



refearches* I could never find any perfon 

 " except Remouzai, who was able to give 

 ** me any certain accounts rerpeQ:ing thefe 

 " two incurfions. 



*' Maimbou, with whom I had a good 

 ** deal of mtercourfe^ for the purpofe of 



" procuring 



