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and a necklace of large glafs beads. To the 
women I gave beads and copper wire for 
bracelets. Amidft tliefe reciprocal prefents and 
the fentiments of affedion with which they 
mutually infpired us, I obferved a young girl 
of fixteen, confounded with the crowd, who 
file wed more curiofity in examining my per- 
fon, than eagernefs to fliare in the trinkets 
which I was diftributing to her companions. 
She looked at me with fo much attention, 
that I approached her that fiie might have 
more time to furvey me at her leifure. I found 
that her figure v/as altogether enchanting; flic 
had the frefiieft and the moil beautiful teeth 
in the world ; her perfon was flender and 
elegant, and her fliape, formed to infpire love, 
might have ferved as a model for the pencil 
of Albano. She was the youngeft of the 
Graces, under the figure of a Hottentot. 
The imprefiions made by beauty are uni- 
verflil : it is a fovereign who reigns over all ; 
and I was fennblc, by the profufion of my 
prefents, that I bowed a little under its fway. 
My young favage foon grew familiar. I had 
given her a girdle, a pair of bracelets, and a 
necklace of large white beads, with which fhe 
feemed to be highly delighted. I untied from 
my 
