12: 
TRAVELS IN 
This appearance, raifed fuddenly, and as if by 
magic, before the eyes of the horde, with my 
fufees, horfes, and tent, objeds which were all 
new to them, filled them with admiration. Men, 
women, and children, motionlefs and with 
their mouths wide open, all flood looking at 
them with profound filence. Anger, hatred, 
and every violent paffion, feemed by their 
countenances to be extinguiflied, and to have 
given place to more tranquil emotions, to ig- 
norant furprife, and ftupid aftonifliment. This 
ftate of calmnefs was juft what I wiflied for ; 
and my whole attention was employed in pro- 
longing it, in order that I might turn it to ad- 
vantage. 
Infancy is naturally curious ; it is ftruck 
With every thing it fees ; and the favage, in 
this refped, is only a grown up child. As 
thefe favages feemed to wifh that I would per- 
mit them to examine more clofely whatever 
excited their admiration, I readily condefcended 
to gratify their defire. They approached, fur- 
veyed, and handled every thing. But the 
principal objedt of general curiofity was my 
perfon. They feemed as if they would never 
be fatisfied with looking at my drefs. They 
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