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siding at Phillipolis; and halting for an hour at 

 one of them, the fellows clamorously demanded to 

 see the portrait of their arch enemy, which they 

 understood from the Hottentots I had brought. 

 Tlie Napoleon of Southern Africa having been ac- 

 cordingly exhibited at the end of the waggon, they 

 spit at, and offered him every indignity — their cap- 

 tain, a diabolical looking ruffian, whose head had 

 been turned by "the schoolmaster" at his elbow, 

 logically inquiring, in reply to our remonstrances, 

 " whether he had not as good a right to put us to 

 death for shooting ducks on his tank, without paying 

 for the same, as Moselekatse to destroy the Griquas 

 who hunted zeekoes in the Likwa ?" They at last 

 became so exceedingly insolent and overbearing, 

 that we were fain to decamp ; and Cobus and April, 

 who had contrived to obtain some brandy from their 

 countrywomen, attempting to desert at the same 

 time, we narrowly escaped adding the w^hole of our 

 horses to the catalogue of our losses. 



Great had been the pointing of fingers, and long 

 and loud the discussions touching the geographical 

 position of Phillipolis — one declaring his conviction 

 that it still bore to the south-east, and another to 

 the south-west. About sunset, however, having now 

 achieved upwards of three hundred and fifty miles, 

 in a straight line from the Cashan mountains, apeak 

 rose to view, which, being unanimously recognized, 

 and acknowledged to mark the position of the mis- 

 sionary station, was hailed, as a beacon on the sea- 

 shore is hailed by mariners after a long and danger- 



