1812. 
DEPARTURE FROM KAABI'S KRAAL. 
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to bed. Some additional bushes were cut, and placed so as better to 
keep off the wind ; and this precaution, in addition to the remedy, 
induced a degree of perspiration which, in the course of the night, 
considerably abated the disorder. 
9th. I still considered it prudent to remain thus wrapped up 
all the morning ; but as the weather presented every appearance of 
continuing fine all day, I resolved to proceed on our journey. 
At five in the afternoon we departed, bearing with us the good- 
will of a whole kraal ; to whom we had given perhaps greater hap- 
piness than it had been their lot to experience, for a long time. They 
were much pleased when I assured them it was my intention to re- 
turn by the same route in a few weeks ; and Riizo, who now in- 
formed me that this was the kraal to which he properly belonged, 
although residing at so great a distance as at the Gariep where we first 
met with him, was particularly instructed by Kaabi to remain with 
us until we reached the country of the white-men. One of his 
companions, who had hitherto been our chief attendant, and who was 
to remain at the kraal, now took his leave of us. 
