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pursue him for a share of it, with as much ardor as they had pursued 
me ; while it was his intention to take the smoking of it wholly into 
his own hands, disdaining all assistance in an affair, for the manage- 
ment of which he was so well qualified. 
A chieftain whose name was Krchnori, and who resided in a 
distant quarter of the town, came to ojffer me an elephant's tusk in 
exchange for beads ; and when told that it was oxen, and not ivory, 
which I wished to purchase, he replied, that the tooth was so large 
and heavy, that he had not been able to bring it to the waggons, but 
that if I would come and see it at his house, he was certain that I 
should immediately desire to purchase it. Without promising this, 
I consented to accompany him, in order to examine his house and 
take a view of a distant quarter of the town, which I had not yet 
seen. 
I was attended by Muchiinka and Champani, and by a few natives 
who added themselves to our party. As we walked along, one of 
them amused himself in throwing his tsdjuma or walking-stick in the 
manner of a hassagay, the shaft of which it exactly resembles. He 
was careful to aim always in the direction in which we were going, 
that he might have no other trouble than to pick it up as he passed. 
This was, for a person who walks out merely for exercise, an ex- 
cellent mode of beguiling the way, as it exerts the upper limbs 
equally with the lower, and thus gives employment to all the principal 
muscles of the body : though the object sought in the present case, 
was probably that of perfection in the art of using the hassagay, their 
usual warlike instrument. 
In our way we passed through many clusters of houses ; between 
which there were most frequently large spaces of unoccupied ground. 
Each of these clusters might generally be considered as the village 
of a different kosi or chieftain, and inhabited for the greater part, by 
his relations and connections ; yet not necessarily, nor perhaps always, 
following this as a rule. The houses were all built in the neatest 
manner imaginable ; but beyond the fence which encircled them, not 
the least labor had ever been bestowed ; nor, in any part of this 
extensive town, did there exist w^orks which might be considered as 
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