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ing up horfes belonging to the trading company ; 
the young interpreter, my companion, who was 
obliging to me, and whom our chief previoufly re- 
commended to me as an aiTociate, propoled to me 
another little voyage down the river. This was 
agreeable to me, being deluous of increasing my 
obfefvations during our continuance at Tahha- 
fochte : as when the White King mould return to 
town (which was expe&ed every hour (we intended 
after audience and treaty to leave them and encamp 
in the forefts, about fifteen miles diftance and nearer 
the range of their horfes. 
Having fupplied ourfelves with ammunition and. 
provifion, we fet off in the cool of the morning, and 
defcended pleafantly, riding on the cryftai flood, 
which flows down with an eafy, gentle, yet active 
current, rolling over its filvery bed. How abun- 
dantly are the waters repleniflied with inhabitants I 
the dream almoir. as tranfparent as the air we breathe; 
there is nothing done in fecret except on its green 
flowery verges, where nature, at the command of 
the Supreme Creator, hath fpread a mantle, as a 
covering and retreat at fuitable and convenient times, 
but by no means a fecure refuge from the voracious 
enemy and purfuer. 
Behold the watery nations, in numerous bands 
roving to and fro, amidft each other ; here they feem 
all at peace ; though, incredible to relate ! but a few 
yards off, near the verge of the green mantled more 
there is eternal war, or rather flaughter. Near the 
banks the waters become turbid, from fubftances 
gradually diverging from each fide of the fwift chan- 
nel, and collections of opaque particles whirled to 
* ihore by the eddies ? which afford a kind of nurfery for 
Q^2 young 
