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•what advantage would it have been attended ? 
I fuffered them, therefore, to continue in their 
error, and contented myfelf with conferring 
on them an obligation, by giving them all the 
empty bottles for which I had no ufe. 
On their part, they vied with each other in 
fhewing their generofity towards me ; and I 
muft indeed allow, that I never faw a nation fo 
difinterefted. Every night they brought to my 
camp a confiderable quantity of milk ; and 
they never came to fpend the evening with 
my people, without bringing fome Iheep to re- 
gale them. I have feen many of them give 
away gratuitoufly, and without receiving a^iy 
thing in return, part of their herds and their 
flocks ; and, when I departed, there were many 
perfons in my caravan who poffelTed both 
flieep and oxen, which they had received as 
a pure gift. 
What difference between thefe people, fo 
affectionate, fo generous, and the Greater Nimi- 
quas, who always approached me with a pite- 
ous air, holding out their hands like mendicants, 
to aflv of me every thing they faw ! 
With this benevolent difpdfitlon, the Kabo- 
binuas have alfo a martial charader. Their 
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