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A VOYAGE TO 
1780. were running away, to return. The old man and I now 
cularly that moft fignificant one of holding out a handful 
of dollars, and then pointing to a herd of buffaloes, and 
th,e fowls that were running about the huts in great num¬ 
bers, left him without any doubts as to the real objects of 
our vifft. He pointed toward a place where the town flood, 
and made us comprehend, that by going thither, all our 
wants would be fupplied. By this time the young men, 
who had fled, were returned, and the old man ordered one 
of them to conduct us to the town, as foon as an obftacle 
fhould be removed, of which we were not aware. On 
our firft coming out of the wood, a herd of buffaloes, to 
the number of twenty at leaft, came running toward us, 
tolling up their heads, fnuffing the air, and roaring in a 
hideous manner. They had followed us to the huts, and 
flood drawn up in a body, at a little diftance; and the old 
man made us underhand, that it would be exceedingly 
dangerous for us to move, till they were driven into the 
woods; but fo enraged were the animals grown at the 
fight of us, that this was not effected without a good deal 
of time and difficulty. The men, not being able to ac- 
complifh it, we were furprized to fee them call to their af- 
fiftance a few little boys, who foon drove them out of fight. 
Afterward, we had occafion to obferve, that in driving 
thefe animals, and fecuring them, which is done by putting 
a rope through a hole which is made in their noftrils, little 
boys were always employed, who could ftroke and handle 
them with impunity, at times when the men durft not ap¬ 
proach them. Having got rid of the buffaloes, we were 
conducted to the town, which was at a mile’s diftance; the 
road to it lying through a deep white fand. It is fituated 
near 
