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care to keep feveral burning, in hopes that the 
mafter, if within fight of them, would have the 
curiofity to come the next day, to learn who 
were his new guefts. 
The next day, however, no one appeared, and 
w^e found ourfelves obliged to continue our 
fearch. But towards what point w^e fhould direil 
our courfe was a queftion that puzzled me. Cer- 
tain, at leaft, that it muft ftill carry us farther 
and farther from my encampment, I refolved 
to fend thither one of my people, with orders 
to bring my waggon and cattle to the place 
where I was. BeHdes that the ground here 
was lefs parched, the little fpring w^ould be 
fufficient for my cattle ; for it undoubtedly 
promifed to be more abundant than the hole 
which my dogs had begun, and which was 
probably already dried up. At the fame time 
I iflued an exprcfs injund:ion, to prevent my 
cattle from feeding on the fields that had been 
fown. 
While my orders were carrying to the en- 
campment, I proceeded with my company to- 
Vvards the great chain of mountains, hoping 
|t!^at there, being confiderably elevated above 
die adjaxent country, v/e fliould eafily diicera 
the 
