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to the amount of two or three hundred thou- 
fand livres ; and fo fpeedily was the bufinefs 
executed, that the money was adually fent 
away before I even knew that it was in the 
mint. And I have no doubt, when informed 
of the fpecies of injuftice I havejuft unfolded, 
they will be eager to repair and prevent it by 
fage and wholefome laws, and will commend 
the difinterefted zeal of a traveller, who, while 
he publiflies good adions without flattery, 
ventures at the fame time to denounce bad 
ones wathout malice. ' 
Notwitbftanding the loffes of the horde, It 
ftlil poii'effed a confiderable number of cattle. 
Nafeep entreated me even to accept, as a pre- 
fent, two oxen, four (heep, and a fat cow. The 
oxen I refufed ; but I received the cow and 
fheep, intending them for our evening repafl. 
My deure w^as to make a feafl, flattering my- 
felf that mirth would foften down afperities^ 
and difpel the animofity that prevailed among 
the horde. 
1 v/as not miflaken. Scarcely were the 
animals flaughtered when the dances com- 
menced. They continued the whole night, 
and the quarrels of the day were buried in 
4 oblivion. 
