^4 tRAVELS in 
Nimiquas* , However, though he accepted 
thefe terms without hefitatiorij and even with- 
out afking me to make any addition to them^ 
1 perceived that he was by no means flattered 
"with them. In reality they were Httle to a 
man poffefTed of eight hundred fheep, and 
more than two hundred oxen, and who con- 
fequently, in his fituation, might be deemed 
rich* But when I offered him a daily allow- 
ance of brandy alfo, he could not contain him- 
felf for joy. Living, as he did, far from the 
colony, he had had few opportunities of drink- 
ing this kind of liquor, yet was he paffionately 
fond of it t during my flay with him I had 
occafionally treated him with a little ; and of 
all the means of operating upon his mind, this 
was the moft powerful. 
He added one condition, however, to our 
agreement, which was, that I fhould condud: 
him back again to his horde: a condition 
' which a little thwarted my views ; for tholigh 
the obftacles which were continually arifmg 
made me almoft defpair of the fuccefs of my 
journey, I fiill retained the wdfh to accotnplifh 
it. Meanwhile I refleded, that if thefe obftacles 
in the end compelled me to trace back my ftepsi 
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