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will condud you to another horde, among 
whom, from the favourable teftimony given 
of you by your guides, you may be affured 
of finding the fame love, the fame defire to 
ferve you, the fame entertainments, and all 
that hofpitable care which always proceeds 
from confidence. With thefe peaceful prin- 
ciples fo agreeable to my difpofition, I tra- 
verfed a fmall part of an immenfe quarter 
of the globe ; and I might have tra verfed 
the whole of Africa in the fame manner, 
had I not been flopped by infurmountable 
obftacles, which all my zeal could not over- 
come, and which it would be ufelefs to give 
an account of here. 
It was alfo from thefe maxims that I was 
every day more and more convinced that a 
traveller cannot alTociate any one with him 
in fuch an enterprife, without running tha 
rifque of rendering it abortive, I was certain 
of my own manner of viewing dangers, and 
of the means I had to guard againft them. 
Surrounded by people and friends equal in 
power, in perilous fituations, I could not have 
flattered myfelf with the hopes of inducing 
them all to follow my opinion ; the foolifli 
obftinacy of one might have occafioned the 
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