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The next morning, the woman who had 
promifed me two oxen brought me three. To 
induce the reft to follow her example, I paid 
her handfomely, and gave her three bracelets 
of brafs wire, three girdles of beads, a portion 
of tobacco, a knife, and a fteel with a copper 
tinderbox full of tinder. 
My people cried out greatly on my prodi- 
gality. To liften to them, I was bargaining 
like a complete dupe: but I had my reafons 
for adting thus ; and the woman herfelf under- 
ftood them fo well, that, before fhe went away^ 
ihe afked me to give her a glafs of brandy into 
the bargain. Every thing here below is re- 
lative. She departed in the belief, that (he had 
taken me in : and I congratulated myfelf on 
obtaining from her three fine oxen, each of 
which coft me about two-and-twenty pence 
halfpenny. 
The treafurc this woman had obtained was 
no fooner known In the horde, than all were 
eager to deal with me. Before night I had 
eleven oxen, and a moft charming black bull. 
I did not purchafe this bull for myfelf, but for 
my worthy friend Slaber. He had often rc- 
quefted me, if I vv^nt among the Nimicjuas, to 
procu|-Q 
