94 THEIR REPLIES. [chap. hi. 



they are spies, for they are friends, and they must 

 treat them kindly. The messengers then repeated 

 what they had heard, to show that they recollected it, 

 and were given a sheep to cut up and carry for their 

 provision, and started off. I received civil answers 

 on the messengers' return; hut the Damaras are all 

 so hostile to each other, tribe against tribe, that I 

 found it impossible to bring the chiefs together. Still 

 I was glad that I had sent my messages, as it was 

 a demonstration, and that might be of some immediate 

 good to me. 



