CHAPTER II. 
TRANSACTIONS AT KAABl's KRAAL. 
It being dark when we arrived at this station, I did not go to the 
kraal this evening, but Kaabi and our Bushman fellow-travellers 
passed the night at their own huts, where they entertained their 
friends with some account of us, and extolled the generosity of the 
white-man, so highly, that many of the inhabitants came down the 
hill, and sat round our fire till nearly ten o'clock. These strangers 
had been much prepossessed in our favor by what they had heard, 
and behaved with the greatest cordiality and good-will, but I was 
obliged to let them know that no tobacco was to be given away till 
the morning ; when it was my intention to distribute some to every 
person in the kraal. With this promise, they were perfectly satisfied, 
and remained conversing with us, and occasionally obtaining the 
favor of a whifF out of the pipe of one or other of my Hottentots. 
Having brought with us no boiling-pot, we requested them to 
