A F R I C Ao 1^9 
It I could hope for ho faccefs ; and I fhould 
perhaps have been flopped at the very firft 
ftep. 
My fecond trial had anfwered to my wifliesi. 
Wherever I went, I found friendsj and met 
with trufty men, who conduced me from one 
horde to another, and whofe fervice and aid I 
purchafed for mere trifles. Free as the air, I 
depended on no one. The people thus ac- 
quired, oppofed to my will neither difficulties^ 
delay, nor refufal ; and every thing feemed to 
announce to me that I might tcaverfe all 
Africa. 
With regard to my waggons^ it was in vain 
to think of them^ In proportion as you ad- 
Vance from the colonies towards the tropic^ 
the country becomes more and more rugged 
and uneven. Nothing is feen on all fides but 
mountains and rocks, the defiles of which are 
for the moft part as fteep as precipices, and 
confequently impaflable for whecl^carriages.. 
I faw myfelf reduced j therefore, to the ne- 
ceffity bf travelling with oxen of burden — a 
method much lefs embariraffing and infinitely 
more economical; fince, by requiring fewer cat» 
tie, I had no need to carry with me ufelefs re- 
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