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foot Nafeep drew froiii beneath his krofs the 
cane that had been given him for another pur- 
pofe, and I found that half of it only was left. 
A moment after, the people of the horde 
came in their turn to complain of him. He 
then accufed them all without exception ; and 
a terrible uproar inftantly began. Amidft 
this confufion of chargCvS, it was impoffible to 
underftand a word that was faid. All I could 
infer was, that every body was to blame. But 
what was I to do ? I was no longer in a free 
country; and wherever a fovereign autho- 
rity fubfifts, its laws, good or bad, ought to 
be refpeded. Complaints were addrefled to 
me on all hands ; yet, in my fituatlon, I could 
liften to them only, in order to report them to 
the government. In vain did they teftify 
their refped for me ; having nothing but ad- 
vice to give, what fruits could I expefl: from 
my Interference ? 
If it be true, that the happlnefs of a people 
tends to render them more mild and fecial in 
their manners, it is equally true, that oppreffion 
muft four the temper, and from human beings 
change them into beafts. The difcord and en- 
mity that prevailed among thefe unhappy fava- 
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