i86 TRAVELS IN 
latitude, that is to fay, beyond the Canils. A 
perfon at the foot of thofe mountains on the 
fouth fide then experiences a regular monfoon ; 
but if he go farther, the fcene is changed, and 
he will not find a drop of rain. While I re- 
fided in the country of the lefs Nlmiquas, I 
twenty times witnefled, in the moft unequi- 
vocal manner, how the clouds were attracted 
by the Camis. Seeing them arrive black and 
loaded with rain, I fancied we fhould prefently 
be deluged by them ; but they pafTed fwiftly 
over our heads in their way to the mountains, 
leaving us perfedly dry. Yet, if the Camis 
prevent them from watering the earth in their 
ecurfe, it returns them thither in brooks and 
rivers ; for all the ftreams of this country ori- 
ginate from thof^ mountains, without which 
refource it w^ould be uninhabitable, an4 its fur- 
face untrodden by man. 
Before I quitted the horde of the forcerefs, I 
endeavoured to procure, from the individuals 
of vvrhich it v/as compofed, a few fheep ; for, as 
I found no game, I had nothing to fupport my 
people but my flocks. But the fame reafoa 
which made me defirous of buying rendered 
them unwilling to fell. I had rccourfe to the 
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