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caused his separation from it. My grandfather had 

 been gambling, and lost all the ornaments, &c., that he 

 had on his person, but wishing to continue the game, 

 requested his brother the baboon to go to my great 

 grandfather, the famous Hadji-Aybib, and beg enough 

 beads from him to form another stake. My great 

 uncle the baboon went, but passing a Hottentot werft 

 by the way, in which were many fierce dogs, before 

 unknown in the country, he became so alarmed at 

 theii" barking and snapping at him that he ran to the 

 hills, and never dared face man again. Why should not 

 we and the baboons be brothers ? " said the old gentle- 

 man. "Everybody persecutes us alUve. "We both live 

 on the hills, eat the same roots, and ' crow ' for them 

 with our hands in the same manner ! " Hadji-Aybib, 

 my friend's great grandfather, married a Bushwoman 

 for his second wife, who annoyed her step sons by her 

 hauteur, and twitted them on account of their vulgar 

 habits and low connections. Influenced by her, Hadji- 

 Aybib cruelly treated his Damup progeny, and they on 

 their part earnestly longed for his death. One day he 

 was missing, rumour gave out that he was killed, and 

 the sons gave way to the greatest paroxysms of merri- 

 ment, during which they behaved in such an unseemly 

 manner before the eyes of their fine lady Hottentot 

 connections that on Hadji-Aybib's return, — for he was 

 not killed after all, — they were obliged, from absolute 

 shame, to liide themselves away from his presence, and 

 fled to the hills, bearing with them the reproachful 

 name of Ghou Damup. 



August ISth. — Our party separated, one detachment 



