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and if yoii are not well treated as you pro- 
ceed, tiiis little ftock will be your fupport.'^ 
The poor man lamented he could not let 
us have a morfel of bread. -We live, faid 
he, the- year round chiefly on mutton and 
game ; but feldom enjoy the luxury of a 
loaf. He infilled, however, on my taking the 
flieep, which I accepted with many thanks^ 
and we then departed on our j*^illey. 
During the four or five fucceeding daySy 
we travelled on from houfe to houfe, gene- 
rally at fifteen or fixteen /J^^/rJ diftance from 
each other, and were received at all of theiii 
with a difinterelted hofpitality, I relate 
tliefe occurrences with a fcrupulous atten^ 
tion to fidelity, becaufe the colonifts, with- 
out diftin&ion, have been reprefented as a 
ferocious banditti^ fcarcely to be kept within 
the pale of authority. I believe 7nq/i of thefe 
people at certain times commit thofe depre- 
dations I have already defcribed, and there- 
fore deferve exemplary punilhment ; but 
it v^as my good fortune to meet with a de^ 
fcrviog clais, and I coniider it as an indif- 
■penfabie duty to preferve their charadrers 
from the general opprobrium. 
During feveral days travel we could get- 
but little bread, and not much water. The 
countries through v/hich we palled, were 
alternately hill and dale, and often afforded 
the moft romantic profpects. We frequent- 
ly perceived vaft quantities of wolves, and 
often fuch droves of that fpecies of deef 
which the farmers call fprln^buck^ that we 
