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hands, by troops, without fear, and without 
the leaft fufpicion, always reftored me to my 
natural charader, which is that of gentlenefs, 
tolerance, and the love of eafe; and never 
were the ideas.of conqueft and empire, which 
fometimes fpring from obftacles and refiftance, 
fo foon or fo completely driven away as by the 
mild and frank behaviour of thefe fons of na- 
ture. Wherever I met with them, all their 
efforts were exerted to induce me to vifit 
them. 
As a more powerful incentive to this, the 
greater Nimiqua^ told me, that, two days 
journey north of their canton, I fliould find 
plenty of giraffes and rhlnocerofes. Hitherto, 
as I have already faid, I had never feen a giraffe. 
The part of Africa which I traverfed in my 
firfl journey afforded none ; and what I had 
yet vifited in my fecond was equally deilitute 
of them, for they never pafs the Great River. 
In one of my hunting excurfions, indeed, I 
had met with two rhinocerofes ; but, having 
only my common fufee with me, I took care 
jiot to attack them. 
I had long been warned of the danger arifing 
from provoking fuch an enemy, and experi- 
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