%6i T R AV E L S IN 
My engaging behaviour had fecured me the 
friendlhlp and confidence of thefe honeft fa? 
vages; and they entertained fo high an opinion 
of me, that they never undertook any thing 
without confulting me. One day having come 
to complain that the hy:^nas of the country 
ravaged and deftroyed their flocks, I was the 
more incUned to beheve what they faid, as one 
of my oxen had juft been devoured by the fame 
animals. Charmed at having a^ opportunity 
of hunting thtfe ferocious beafts along with 
them, I appointed next day for our excurfion 5 
and early in the morning they arrived at my 
camp, to the number of about an hundre4 
men, all well armed with bows and arrows. 
Tothefe 1 added all my hunters ; and, putting 
myfelf at their head, we beat the vv^hole coun- 
try round with our dogs. With fuch a number 
of people I hoped to make a general flaughter 
among thefe deftruffive animals ; but three 
fliots which we fired, and which killed three of 
them, had .ipparently difperfed all the refl. Af- 
ter this we faw none of them; for the noife ha4 
fo frightened them, that, from that moment 
till the time of our departure, we heard no 
more of the hvasnas than if they had never 
fxifted. 
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