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employment. The amiable daughters of Sla- 
ber were the direftors of thefe excurfions, and 
there was a finefTe and a grace in their con- 
trivances for this purpofe, that one could 
fcarcely have expected from women fo remote 
from the cuftoms and coquetry of Europe. 
For example, they imagined they could not 
prefent to the regards of their impatient and hu- 
mourous guefts, a fpedacle better calculated to 
prolong his vifit than that of his own horfes 
browiing in the fields near their habitation. 
They led me, without my having the leaft 
fufpicion of the matter, to an agreeable afcent, 
where I found my little ftpek in the moft en- 
viable ftate of felicity and fatnefs. They were 
indebted for their profperlty to the perfonal at- 
tentions of my fair friends. We came nearer, 
and a new fubjed prefented itfelf to my fur- 
prife. Many of my female goats had yeaned, 
and brought me fo many kids. No man who 
has not been in the fame fituation can feel 
what I felt at this time. My animals were 
the only pofleffions that had never pccafioned 
me regret, mortification, or uneafinefs. The 
benefit I had derived from my goats in my firft 
journey, affured me of the ftill renewed and 
and more confiderable benefits I Ihould now 
G 4 receive. 
