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to travel over unknown countries, to 
ascend mountains of stupendous elevation, 
penetrate woods, traverse deserts, ford 
rivers ; and yet we were to combat all these 
difficulties bare-footed, not having saved 
above four pair of shoes, and even these 
but in sad condition. 
As my feet were naked, like most of my 
people's, one of them offered me an old 
pair of boots which he then wore ; but I 
refused them. My habiliments were a short 
jacket, a table-cloth, which I found on the 
shore, wrapt round my loins ; a shawl over 
it ; four shirts which I wore at the same 
time ; a pair of trowsers, and a hat. 
We bore to the westward on our setting 
out, for the purpose of obtaining fresh 
water in the course of our journey. Our 
guides observed, that near the coast the 
water was generally brackish ; we therefore 
struck into the interior, and were not en- 
tirely disappointed in our expectations. 
The country through which we travelled 
was beautifully variegated with hills, dales, 
extensive plains finely watered, but less 
wooded than the former. The grass ap- 
