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on the royal heels. Having desired an attendant to 

 advance with a very handsome weasel-skin cloak, 

 which I had seen him wearing the day before in the 

 kraal, he invested me with the greasy robe, saying 

 that I looked very cold, and must keep it as a token 

 of his friendship. A similar speech to Richardson 

 was accompanied with a leopard-skin girdle. De- 

 termined not to be out-done in generosity, we pre- 

 sented him in return with a rich Persian carpet, 

 which had formed the basis of my bedding. This 

 being spread on the ground, had the desired effect 

 of enticing him down from his seat, with the design 

 of inspecting it narrowly, and we instantly gave 

 orders to yoke the oxen, which had purposely been 

 kept close to the waggons. 



Having informed his Majesty that we were ready 

 to start, and the whips being cracked, he accom- 

 panied us a considerable distance — at last stopping, 

 and extending his hand, when a general leave-taking 

 took place, the word " Fellow ! fellow I fellow /" 

 being repeated as before by each great man, the by- 

 standers shouting " Haiyahr He desired us to 

 convey his tumerisho to the white king — to Sir Ben- 

 jamin D' Urban, to whom he sent a special message — 

 and to Dr. Smith, adding that Mohanycom would 

 accompany us to the Vaal River — but that we must 

 make haste back to the colony, lest the governor 

 should think that he had slain us. Upon my re- 

 peating that I should shortly come again, bringing 

 for him a double-poled tent, he replied that that 

 was mooe, mooe, mooel monanti, monanfi, monanti! 



