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ceived that the herd had been divided, one 
part turning off due eaft, the other continuing 
to advance to the north. The latter being the 
more confiderable, refolved to make that 
our purfuit, and, the fooner to overtake it, to 
refume our journey before day. This plan 
being fixed, we returned to the halting-place ; 
and, after a very peaceable night, fet off, in fadt, 
two hours before funrife. 
Though \YQ could not fee the track becaufe 
of the darknefs, I flattered myfelf, that, by 
travelling northerly, 1 fhould not inifs it ; and, 
if I did mifs it, it could not much fignify, as 
we might foon find it again, and without dif- 
ficulty. We made, however, no miftake; 
for, when day broke, w^e found ourfelves fol^ 
lowing precifely its diredion ; but, after tra- 
velling four long leagues, I perceived it vifibly 
to bend to the right, as if to rejoin the divifion 
•which had turned off to the eaft. Bafter, who 
had traverfed this diftrid: in my abfence, told 
me he knew where he was, and that a very 
little way off was a horde of Kaminouquas, 
which he had vifited for the purpofe of trade. 
From what he faid of the fituation of 
tl^is horde, I fpund that it was between 
the 
