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clud(^cl his vengeance, and he soon at'terwaixls 

 dropped down dead. 



Thus far on our journey we had pursued a par- 

 tially beaten track, dignified by the Hottentots in 

 colonial phraseology with the name of a road, 

 though since leaving Kurrichane, it had consisted 

 merely of the faint vestiges of the traders' waggons, 

 which " few and far between" had traversed it — 

 and even these could only be discovered by a prac- 

 tised eye. But from our entrance into the hills 

 this morning, all traces had disappeared, nor did 

 we again see the tracks of a waggon for sexeral 

 months, imtil we had crossed the river Vaal on our 

 return to the colony. Thus left to ourselves, 

 matters resumed a smoother aspect, and the dread 

 of Moselekatse appeared to have forsaken the 

 Hottentots, leaving behind it, like an intermittent 

 fever, an interval of tranquillity, which lasted for 

 some time. 



