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derers, as I fliould otherwife have beeri flag-* 
gered by the difficulty of the paflage, which 
would have induced me to return and relin- 
qui(h the purfuit* 
Though exafperated, I was not, however, 
blind to the danger ; and, in fome degree to 
diminifli it, I proceeded farther up the river, 
and crofled it where its bed was much lefs 
wide. I had no room to fear going out of 
the way by this proceeding ; for, befides that 
the drowned ox convinced me that the Bofh- 
men were higher up, my guides, who had re- 
connoitred the track the day before, could not 
fail of putting me into It. 
In fad, we eafily found it again, and pur- 
fued it anew for the fpace of five leagues, 
when my Kaminouquas fuddenly flopped as if 
thunderflruck ; for the footfteps, inftead of 
continuing to tend towards the horde they had 
fufpeded, turned off at an angle, and were di- 
reded a fecond time to the river. 
This new difappointment put us all to a 
ftand. The furprife was general ; and we 
looked at one another for fome time without 
fpeaking a word. Our guides, forced to ac- 
knowledge the innocence of the horde they 
had 
