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begun to clear fome ground for the purpof^ 
of fov/ing the grain necefiary for the confump- 
tion of his horde, wanted all his oxen. The 
utmoft I could obtain from him by the moil 
urgent folicitation was one team. " Do you 
" fee thofe lofty mountains of Camis ?" faid he 
to me : " you will there find as many as you 
" want. Your conveyance thither fhall be 
my bufmefs. I will fend my brother to con- 
*^ dud: you : he fhall take with him as many 
men and oxen as your waggons require ; 
and when he has put you into a fituation to 
procure frefli cattle, he fliall then return." 
Circumftanced as I was, I could not defire a 
more fatisfadory offer, for it afforded me the 
means of continuing my journey. What in- 
deed could Bafter do more ? Or what more 
could I alk of him ? Yet 1 had ftill another wiflx 
at heart, and that w*as to take my hoft himfelf 
with me. I was going to traverfe the country 
of the Great Nimiqaas ; and I knew that he 
had vifited thofe people, was known to moft 
of their hordes, fpoke their language fluently, 
and of courfe might be infinitely ferviceable 
to me In my intercourfe with them. The 
difBcuUy was to prevail on him to accompany 
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