fiS8 TRAVELS IK 
enflaved to fantaftic defires, they could not 
participate in my follies. How often, while 
I refufed to copy their wifdom, have I recol- 
lefted with regret the moments which, dupe 
to the fpecious promifes of men and their per- 
fidious lies, I have painfully wafted in endea- 
vouring to ferve them ! How often have I re- 
folved never again to exchange my repofe, 
and its unambitious pleafures, for their artifi- 
cial and infipid praifes, for the fmoke of that 
incenfe, which, fo to fay, you at laft contrive 
that they fliall blow in your face ! 
After having beftowed fome prefents on the 
women and children of the horde, I returned 
to the river with my party, and we continued 
to proceed along its courfe. Though this 
journey was through places which every one 
of us had traverfed a hundred times, no one 
recolle6led them, fo brilliant an appearance 
had the change of the feafon and the re-afcent 
of the fap given to what at our departure 
wore the moft fteiile afpedt. 
It is not improbable that we fhould have paf- 
fed the camp without knowing it, particularly 
as it was fituated behind the trees on the other 
bank, fo as to be concealed from our view ; but 
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