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his mind, and confequently in all the horde. 
If this Idea did not fecure my perfon. It at 
leaft flattered my vanity. 
As we were returning to the camp, we 
fell in- with a flock of bubales, at the diftance 
of two hundred paces. Having killed one 
of them with my carabine, my companion 
appeared to be very much furprifed, remem- 
bering that at the diftance of fifteen paces he 
had not been able in feveral fhots to kill even 
a fmall bird. He began to meafure the pro-^ 
digious diftance between us and the bubale. 
As I obferved that he feemed to be loft in 
melancholy refieftions, and to be under great 
uneafinefs, I looked at him with an air of 
affedtion, and gave him every confolation in 
my power. — Amiable youth, who didft not 
know how eftimable and engaging that fimpli- 
city was, which made thee appear fo little be- 
fore thy fellow-creature, long mayeft thou 
retain thy happy ignorance! May 1 be the 
laft ftranger who, with ra(h fteps, fnall dare 
to tread thy native plains ; and may thy foli- 
tude never be polluted ! 
We covered our bubale with the branches 
of trees ; and, when I returned, I fent a horfe 
to convey it to my camp. 
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