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finding fo much as a finglebeaft ; for, judging 
of me by others, they had taken me for one 
of thofe pretended cattle-merchants, wliofe 
prefence is a real calamity. To remove thefe 
unfavourable prejudices, it was requifite for 
me to remain fome time with the favages, that 
they might know me better, or learn from my 
people the motive of my travels. When this 
was done, their confidence revived : they re- 
lated to me the abominable crimes perpetrated 
by the wretches with whom I had been con- 
founded : I faw their cattle re-appear ; and, if I 
wiflied to purchafe any, I was left to make 
choice among them, and they were all at my 
difpofal. I dealt on honourable terms, and 
paid honeftly for what I purchafed ; and at my 
departure I had the confolation to hear thofe 
lips, which had hitherto beftowed execration3 
only on the whites, confefs that there were 
fome among them who did not deferve to be 
hated. % 
I certainly did not fufpeil Pinar to be one of 
thefe purchafers at the fword's point. No doubt 
he meant to acSt differently, as he was the only 
man of his colour, and carried with him the 
three 
