§38 TRAVELS I W 
Upon this intelligence, Klaas and I got on 
horfeback, and, followed by four other chaf- 
feurs, fet out to purfue them. We indeed 
foon difcovered thirteen of thefe plunderers ; 
but the rapidity of our courfe, and our de- 
termined and refolute appearance, foon put 
them to fiighti We however galloped to- 
wards them full fpeed, and made fome of 
our balls whiz around their ears ; but we 
could not get near enough to take proper 
aim at them* I confidered it as fufficient 
for me, and it tended not a little to my 
fafety, that we had ftruck them with fomc 
terror. We faw them all enter the moun-* 
tains by different pathsj and they foon dif- 
appeared entirely. I greatly admired the 
agility with which they climbed the fteepeft 
rocks with the nimblenefs of monkeys ; but 
I did not choofe to follow them farther ; for 
It would have been highly imprudent to at- 
tempt to attack them in their ftrong holds, 
and their impenetrable receffes. 
Thefe people would not affuredly have 
miffed us. They were all perfeflly naked-i 
and I judged, by the traces of their feet, 
that they wore fandals. This flight alarm 
was of the great eft utiHty ; it ferved to ren- 
der 
