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allowance, and who would foon be reduced 
to a total ftoppage of it, to take fo long a 
round? How induce the Greater Nimi- 
quas, now on the point of rejoining their 
horde, to turn their backs, and wander from 
it anew ? Above all, with fuch a large train 
and fo many cattle, how undertake to traverfe 
plains, neither more rugged nor difficult, it is 
true, than that we had already crofled, but in 
which,infl:ead of the indefatigable Houzouanas, 
I had attendants who, for the moft part, were 
of little ufe to me, and almoft all of whom had 
forfeited my confidence ? 
^ By taking the other road, I learned from 
the chief of the horde, that, after two days 
march, I fhould fall in with another of this 
nation ; that this would condufl: me to a third ; 
and that thus it would be eafy for me to pro- 
ceed from horde to horde with fure guides as 
far as Orange-River. As he oflfered to fend 
fome of his own people to condufl: me to the 
firft, I accepted his offer, and departed with the 
more fatlsfaction, as I refleded, that it would 
be in my power when I arrived at the camp, 
if circumflances permitted it, to refume my 
fcheme of tracing the courfe of the ftream. 
'Moft 
