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ous voyage. Our followers were now as bold as 

 lions ; and an unusually diminutive Bushman in- 

 judiciously presenting himself with the humble sa- 

 lutation of " Goen-dakha,tabakka,'' ('• Good morrow, 

 gentlemen, some tobacco if you please,") Piet un- 

 corked his indignation — let ofif the superfluous foam 

 in a volley of oaths and anathemas, levelled against 

 the whole race — and finally chastised the luckless 

 individual of it with the long waggon-whip within 

 an inch of his life. Twenty-five miles the following 

 day brought us to an extensive lodge of Griquas, 

 under Captain Abraham Barend, where we passed 

 the night, and in exchange for tea and snufF, obtained 

 from the civil old man the luxuries of fowls and 

 milk, to which we had so long been entire strangers. 



