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orders in my troop ! What fatisfadlori wotiltl 
it have afforded me, to have been able to efFedl: 
a reparation, by remaining on the banks of the 
Green-River, and fuffering him to proceed 
before me ! But this reparation was impofTible ; 
for the bed of the river having no v^ater^ it 
was necelTary to feek one that could fupply us. 
Befides, as two of my teams did not belong to 
me, and were lent but to convey me to Mount 
Namero, it was incumbent on me to remem« 
ber, that they were necefiary to the two bro- 
thers for the cultivation of their land, and of 
confequcnce that I ought to reftore them the 
moment it was pradicable. 
One refleiflion, however, comforted me 
under the diforders to which I was fo painfully 
a wltnefs. If I had reafon to dread the prefence 
of Pinar, mine was perhaps ftill more to be 
dreaded by him. My frank and decided tem- 
per would not fuffer me to be filent refpeding 
any equivocal a£tion or culpable condud. In 
the evening I had openly teftified my difplea- 
fure towards this drunkard : before we fet off, 
I renewed my reproaches, in the moft firm and 
peremptory tone ; and I obferved that, fince 
our encampment, he was abafhed and embar- 
raffed 
