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CHAPTER XIX. 
RESIDENCE AND TRANSACTIONS AT KLAARWATER, TILL THE END OF THE YEAR. 
November 20th. The excursion from which I had just returned, 
although it had not occupied more than twenty-six days, had added 
very considerably to my knowledge, both of the manners of the 
natives, and of the nature and productions of the country. From 
the experience in dealings and converse with wild people, which had 
been gained in this trip, I thought myself now to be, in some 
measure, qualified for a journey further into the continent ; and was 
anxious for the arrival of the day of my departure from Klaarwater. 
In the arrangement of my observations and notes ; in the order- 
ing and packing up of my collections ; and in the regulating and 
disposing of the mass of objects which had accumulated during my 
last excursion, I found work sufficient to keep me fully employed 
during the greater part of my stay : and the want of some intelligent 
