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would be expofed to fomething more than 
fear, and pay dear for their imprudent curi- 
ofity. 
On the 1 6th we purfued our journey. In 
five different encampments I traverfed all the 
cpuntry, which we were about to quit. After 
marching three hours, I found myfelf on the 
banks of the Klein-Vis river; fo that I could 
not advance farther that day : and we fpent 
a great deal of time in endeavouring to find a 
part of the river fordable for my carriages. 
In this place they had before been in great 
danger of being overfet. 
The following day having crofTed the ri- 
ver without fuflaining any lofs, I faw ano- 
ther deferted habitation j but I had not the 
curlofity to approach it. Some leagues far- 
ther we found abundance of mimofas, and all 
as completely in bloffom as thofe I had left 
the evening before. I yielded the more rea- 
dily to the temptation which induced me to 
flop on the borders of thefe forefts, as I ob- 
ferved a variety of birds which I had no 
where feen, and, for the fecond time, that 
kind of perroquet of which I have before 
fpoken. Wandering to a little diftance, I 
found myfelf in a fmall meadow, amiuft a 
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