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and frigid ; and I foon perceived, on convert 
fing with them, that this fluggifh apathy exilled 
in their thoughts and afFedions as well as in 
their exterior appearance. When any thing 
was propofed to them, whether agreeable or 
not, they never anfwered immediately, but 
kept filence for fome time, refleded gravely, 
and fpoke with deliberation. 
This tranquil and uniform charader is very 
different from that of favages in general It is 
by no means that of the Gonaquas and Gaffres : 
and, what is more fmgular, it is ftrikingly con- 
trafted by that of the women of the horde, 
whofe lively looks indicate extreme gaiety, and 
whoare great laughers on every occafi n iknow 
riot what local caufe can have thus fadclened 
the minds of the Greater Nimiquas: fiqce, if 
their ferious melancholy be a phyfical qu Yity^ 
how happens it that the women, who are their 
mothers or their daughters, fo ftrangely differ 
from them? 
On the way I perceived vaft herds of oxen, 
which I was told belonged to the horde ; and 
this difcovery gave me much pleafure, becaufc 
it afforded me hopes of being able to purch? 1^ 
without difficulty as many as I wanted. Wrim 
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