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brother inclined to my opinion ; so it was finally 

 settled that Wood should take fourteen of our Kafirs 

 and Bushmen, and make tracks eastwards, taking 

 with him the tusks of the three elephants already 

 shot, which he would forward at the earliest oppor- 

 tunity to the waggons at Daka ; whilst I, with ten 

 Kafirs and two Bushmen, together with the Gardens 

 and their whole retinue, should proceed up the river. 



