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JOURNEY TO 
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high spirits that I was induced to compare their 
combined vociferations to the uproar which pre- 
vailed in the streets of Paris, during some of the 
revolutionary massacres. Many of them appeared 
so full of rage, that a stranger would have ex- 
pected every moment to see them stab each 
other with their assagais, or cleave one another 
down with their battle-axes. Inquiring of the in- 
terpreter, at the height of the uproar, the subject 
of dispute, he carelessly answered, it was only 
about the best way to travel on the morrow 
in order to obtain water. This disagreeable 
scene continued till after midnight, when some 
of them fell asleep from fatigue, while others 
became silent from the effects of their violent 
exertions. 
An address, after the reading of part of the 
Scripture, was given every evening to the people 
through the medium of the interpreter ; the sub- 
ject of the former night was on the resemblance 
of human life to a journey ; and this evening I 
explained the necessity and utility of a revelation 
from God. 
Happening to say to Munameets that we must 
purchase an ox from the Tammahas, to replace 
the one killed by the lions, he told us in the 
evening, while sitting by the fire, that his heart 
was sore! [or something troubled him.] Being 
