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which we heard very near us. This noife 
was occafioned by elephants, which we drove , 
away by firing our fufees, and which, coming 
in queft of pafturage in the neighbourhood 
of my camp, were breaking the branches to 
procure themfelves food. 
Next raorning, when day appeared, I faw 
in the plain, on an extent of fcarcely half 4 
league, more than a hundred of thefe animals 
collected together. They perceived us as; 
diftindly as we perceived them ; but they, 
neverthelefs, appeared not to be in the leaft 
ftartled. 
At this fight my hunters were tranfported 
with joy. They immediately got ready their 
arms, and were magnifying, in imagina- 
tion, the ivory with which this wonderful 
hunt was to fupply them. For my part, being 
no longer a novice, the e^gernefs I had formerly 
felt was gone. Satiated in foi^e degree with 
thisamufement,Ididnot forget the dangers witl^ 
which it is almoft always accompanied. The^ 
Inconvenience, befides, of tranfporting with- 
out a waggon the teeth of thefe animals, in- 
fpired me with no great defirc of pofTeffing 
them, 
I While 
