1^4 TRAVELS IN 
of grandeur. His late majefty likewife received 
from me a mark of refped, in a prefent of 
a fmall knife and a little tobacco^ 
The moment the ehief received my prefent^ 
lie was eager to fliare it with his brother j and 
each with admirable generofity immediately 
employed his knife to divide the piece of to- 
bacco, and diftribute it among thofe by whom 
they were accompanied. 
It was probably the intention of the two^ 
brothers to be beforehand with me in a prefent, 
as no doubt they had previoufly given orders 
for this piarpofe. At leaf!:, though we were 
five hundred paces from the horde, two fat 
fheep arrived, which they requefted me to 
accept. 
The true mode of rendering yonrfelf re- 
fpeded by favages is to convince them, by 
fome extraordinary feat, how fuperior a white 
man is to the natives of their own country. 
I had a double-barrelkd piftol ; I fired it 
through the head of each of the fheep, and 
killed them both. My Nimiquas were ac- 
quainted with the report of fire-arms : they 
had feen fufees in the hands of fome of the 
planters : but they knew nothing of piftofe, 
and 
