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return till night. They came with crttptj 
hands, but they brought me fome pleafmg 
news. 
While beating about the country, they met 
w'ith fome Greater Nimiquas, whofe horde was 
within four leagues of my camp ; and, certain 
thati they fhould oblige me by procuring me an 
opportunity of feeing it, they repaired thither, 
to afk the confent of the chkf, and give him 
no^tice of my Tifit. He affured them it would 
give him great pleafure to fee me, and fent fix 
of his people to give me an invitation. I re- 
ceived and entertained his mefl'engers in a 
friendly manner, and faid, in anfwer to their 
fo]ieitations, that the next morning at break 
of day I would accompany them to their, 
horde. 
The fcent of our game, and the fumes of our 
cookery, had been fmelled by the hyaenas aod 
jackals at fome diflance. Thefe animals roamed 
round my camp all the night. The hyxnas 
particularly, either more bold or more prefTed 
by hunger, approached fo near, that we could 
obferve their motions by the light of our fires ; 
and I killed one the moment he fell upon one 
of OUT iheep. This animal was of the very 
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