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liderable quantity of fmall fliot, and I carried 
eight fufees along with me, leaving eight 
more for the defence of my camp. I then 
collected different kinds of beads and toys, 
which I afforted feparately into bags and 
fmall boxes, and packed up a woollen cover- 
let, a large cloak, and fome other effefts, 
which I confidered as abfolutely neceffary. 
For the ufe of my kitchen, we carried only 
one kettle, a boiler, and fome tea, fait, fu- 
gar, &c. My companions alfo employed them- 
felves In rolling up their Ikins, mats, and 
utenfils ; and they did not forget to requeft 
that I would lay in a proper provifion of to- 
bacco and brandy. The buftle and agitation, 
with the running backwards and forwards, 
which all thefe preparations occafioned, 
would have afforded me a very amufing 
fcene, had my mind been calm, and all my 
people difpofed to follow me : — It might have 
been an excellent fubje£t for a painter. On 
the other hand, the aflonifhed and forrow- 
ful air of thofe poltroons who remained ex- 
hibited a lingular contrafl : thofe who were 
about to depart exalted their voices, and be- 
held them with a kind of pity ; one might 
have faid, that they no longer knew them. 
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