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taken the ftait of me with his people, and 
made preparations to entertain me at his ' 
houfe. I ordered my oxen to be unyoked 
on the fpot where he had met me ; and going 
along with him, was received very politely by 
his wife and two pretty daughters, who com- 
pofed his whole family. Till the hour of 
dinner, we employed our time in viewing his 
eftate ; and, during our repaft, he did not fail 
to enlarge upon the excellence of the waggon 
which I had purchafed from him. 1 was even 
.obliged to liften to a long hiftory, in which he 
recited all the good qualities of each of the 
oxen that drew it. I muft, indeed, do him 
the juftice to fay that he did not deceive me : 
I have fince found, and, I muft allow, much 
to Mr. Smit's honour, that thefe oxen were 
the beft I ever employed, and the moft to be 
depended upon ; and that, in my extraordi- 
nary Gourfes, and the moft dangerous pafles, 
his waggon^ folidly conftruded, held out to 
the very laft, 
Notvvdthftanding the entreaties of this good 
family, who invited me to fpend the night 
with them, I departed as foon as we had 
4ined* and, after fome hours march, we crofled 
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