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bodies, more or lefs confiderable, according tcr 
places and circumftances ; and, as the fam^ 
caufe often reduced them to a great fcarcity of 
provifions, they made incurfions into the terri- 
tories of their neighbours, and carried off their 
flocks. Thefe plunderers, living by rapine, 
are fo much feared in the whole neighbour? 
hood on account of their valour, that a few of 
them are fufficient to put to flight a whole 
horde of two hundred men completely armed ; 
and if the party who have been robbed follow 
them, when they retire with their booty, it is 
, rather to afllire themfelves of their retreat than, 
to attack them. 
The Kabobiqua horde itfelf, though be- 
longing to a nation more warlike than any of 
the other tribes around, were equally timid 
in regard to the Houzouanas. Taught from 
their infancy to confider them as formidable, 
they thought refiflance ufelefs, and took no 
precautions to enable them either to prevent 
or repel their attacks. 
They had, however, recently concluded a 
treaty of peace with the nearefi divifion ; and, 
in order to enfure tranquillity, had engaged to 
pay them annually a certain number of cattle. 
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