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Walked. From time to time they flopped to 
lick their feet ; but this momentary relief, by 
foftening the fkin, rendered them flill more 
painful. 
The night was attended with no other event 
than the difcovery of fome fires, which weob- 
ferved before us on the mountains, and which 
were produftive of joy as they awakened our 
hopes. My Houzouanas in particular teftified 
their fatisfadlion, conceiving at firft that they 
were fignals made by their companions ; but 
having looked attentively, without diftingulfh- 
ing in thefe fires their own language and cha- 
raders, they agreed in confidering them as kin- 
dled by fome neighbouring horde with whom 
they were unacquainted. 
The fleep and repofe of a fingle night were 
not fufficient to reftore ilrength to people fo 
much haraffed as mine. Accordingly in the 
morning, they all complained that they were 
not able to ftand upright ; and I thought, for 
a moment, that 1 £hould have been obliged to 
remain in the place w^here I had encamped. 
Having, however, reprefented to them that it 
w^ould require only a day's journey to reach 
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