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had an air of wealth and opulence which one 
Could not exped to find in the difmal valleys 
of Savoy. 
I marked out, at feme diftance from my 
camp, the precife fpot where I wifhed them 
to lodge; and being more fortunate or better 
obeyed than Idomeneus, when he built the 
city of Salentutn, in the fpace of a few mi- 
nutes I faw a fmall colony rifing before me. 
When our fires were kindled, the flieep 
was cut into pieces and roafted ; and in a 
little time nothing remained of it but the 
Ikin. I was not ignorant how powerful an 
agent intereft is to move all men, and how 
much it tends to difpofe them to benevolence. 
In my prefent fituatlon I put in pradice 
this principle, which had fo often fucceeded 
with me before. Being defirous of gaining 
over thefe CafFres as I had gained the firft 
favages I met with, and particularly the Go- 
naquas, I dlflrlbuted among my guefts dif- 
ferent kinds of toys, and a certain quantity 
of tobacco. They received my prefents with 
great fatisfadion, and each immediately be- 
gan to ufe them. 
But what chiefly engaged their attention, 
and what they would have gladly pilfered 
from 
