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either by advice or complaints, the vifible in- 
tention of which was to irritate me againft it. 
He apprehended, ho\vever, on the other 
hand, that afterwards, when I fhould be gone, 
the Houzoiianas might come and wreak their 
vengeance on his horde, for haying direded 
me to their refidence, and armed me againft 
them. Accordingly, employing my interpre- 
ters, fometimes to infpire me with an enve- 
nomed hatred againft thefe plunderers, and 
fometimes to advife me not to advance farther, 
his mind feemed to be continually at variance 
with itfelf. He was ignorant that the different 
tribes through whofe territories I had paffed 
fpoke to me of them with the fame terror, and 
that all his difcourfe produced no other effect 
than to increafe my defire of knowing them. 
With my numerous caravan, my diftant 
and frequent hunting excurfions, and the 
multiplicity of my nodurnal fires, I could 
not remain long unknow^n to fo wandering 
a people. I entertained no doubt that, in the 
courfe of their roving, they muft already have 
obferved me ; and that if they had not yet 
fhown themfelves, it was becaufe the noife 
of my fire-arms, which refounded night and 
I day. 
