14 TRAVELS iM 
afTurlng them, that if they would promife to bd 
obedient, I would give them the only chief 
worthy of ruling them, and of making them 
happy. 
By means of my interpreters, I had acquired 
every information neceffary to enable me to 
accompliih my end with certainty. My prin- 
cipal aim was to learn the choice or iriclinatiori 
of the majority ; and I hoped, when it was 
known, to give to the objefl: of it a confe- 
quence that iliould be capable of ftriking them, 
I fucceeded according to my deiire. They 
named one Haripa, and I immediately pro- 
claimed him chief. 
The favage has ftrong paffions ; his anger is 
violent, but it is of fhort duration, and he foon 
returns to the natural mildnefs of his charaden 
This I experienced on the preferit oceafion. 
The commotion of the horde fubfided ; and 
they peaceably retired, apparently difpofed ta 
obey me. 
I was ignorant whether the women, when 
they feparated, held any conference together, 
or whether my choice was agreeable to their 
wiflies ; but, at the appointed hour next morn- 
ing, the whole horde appeared before me, with 
6 Haripa 
