Memoirs and Travels of Mauritius Augustus Count de Benyowsky

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: v Wednefday, September the yth. We continued our march through a pleafant and well cultivated country, watered with fine rivers, and very populous, as we could judge by the finall diftance from one village to another. Whenever we refted, we were furrounded by a multitude of people, who brought prefents....
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: v Wednefday, September the yth. We continued our march through a pleafant and well cultivated country, watered with fine rivers, and very populous, as we could judge by the finall diftance from one village to another. Whenever we refted, we were furrounded by a multitude of people, who brought prefents. Their good will was, however, chargeable to us by the returns we made. This day I made an offer to Bamini, of part of the gold and filver I had received of the Prince; but he pofitively re- fufed to accept it, faying, that he was contented in pof- femng my friendfhip, which he begged I would preferve till my return. Thurfday, September the 8th. At three, P. M. we at length arrived at our camp very much fatigued, and ex- haufted with the exceflive heat we had fuffered, as there had been no rain during the whole of our excurfion. General Bamini, after having given the neceffary orders to the chief inhabitants of the country refpecting our fubfiftence, took leave of me. He embraced all my affociates one after the other; and at the inftant of .his departure, he put into my hands a collar of pearls on the part of the Prince, and a rich tent, with a carpet of fuperior workmanfhip. After the departure of Bamini, I received the congratulations of my companions, and faw with the greateft fatif- faction, that Mr. Cruftiew had difpofed of every thing in the beft manner. In the evening, being delirous of giving my companions a mark of liberality, I diftributed among them the whole of the filver and gold by weight; and I put the pearls and the box of gold, which had been privately given me, into the hands of my intimate friends, the officers and women. When the affociates were informed, I 2 thatthat I had kept nothing for myfelf, they propofed each to give me a half fhare of their...