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liews was the more agreeable to me, as it 
pointed out to me what I fought. Thither I 
repaired under his guidance, with my whole 
caravan ; but he had not told me that 1 fliould 
alfo find his waggon there; and I was miich 
grieved when I found myfelf again condemned 
to be his neighbour. However, as I was under 
a fort of obligation to him for the information 
he had juft given me, I invited him and his 
companion to enter 'my tent when it was 
ereded, and treated them with tea, coffee, cho- 
colate, and a bottle or two of wine. My defign, 
in thus leading them to fpend the afternoon 
in the Dutch fafliion, was to employ them and 
divert their attention till night, and thus pre- 
vent a quarrel from taking place between 
Schoenmaker and Bernfry, w1 ich would have 
been inevitable, had they not both been under 
my eye. 
My intention, however, was fruftrated; and 
the very precaution that t took to prevent a 
quarrel occafioned one. 
Pinar, coarfe in his jefts, and naturally vul- 
gar, wanted to raife a laugh at the expence of 
Schoenmaker, and turn his old occupation of 
a feaman into ridicule. Such is the prejudice 
of 
