i8 TRAVELS IN 
fyiTjcIeot number for ray waggons, to fappiy 
the place of thofe I had loft, I procured them 
at a price which made me even afliamed. An 
ox coft me only a (mail bit of iron or a nail ; 
and thofe who had the good fortune to make 
iuch an exchange were highly fatisfied with 
their bargain. 
, I am fully conylnced that, had I been de- 
firous to tempt them, by expofing to their 
view certain trinkets, I might have got, with- 
out exception, every thing that belonged to the 
horde. This reminds me of the Indians I had 
feen at Surinam, who, forgetting in the morn- 
ing that they ziiuil repofe at night, will fell 
their hammock for the end of a lighted wax- 
eandle. Thefe people would not give the 
foialleft article for a hundred weight of wax*- 
candles in packets ; but tbey are feduced by 
thefplendour of one that is lighted. They are 
children who, to obtain any trifle that gives 
them pleafure for the moment, v/ill offer and 
readily refign whatever they poffefs^ 
It Is often from the fame chiidiili fpirit that 
the favage is fo ready to pilfer, and appropriate 
to his own ufe whatever he finds pleafing or 
fuited to his purpofes. The Koraquas at- 
2^ . tempted 
