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DEPARTURE OF RIIZO. 
18 March, 
should receive us. Their disappointment was very evident ; and it 
was only by the strictest injunctions, that I could restrain them from 
the open expression of their indignation at the want of feeling 
which those men must have, who could suffer any persons under our 
circumstances, to pass their door without a welcome, or even a civil 
salutation. 
Of one of the Hottentots of the place, we asked instructions 
respecting the road which we were to take ; and as soon as all were 
ready for starting, our friend Riizo, to whom I had as great pleasure 
in making a present of a large stock of tobacco, as he had in receiving 
it, took his leave to return to Kaabi's Kraal. We separated under 
an expectation, equally agreeable to both, that we should soon meet 
again. I had supposed that the old Bushman and his son would also 
have quitted us at this place ; but after witnessing the little respect 
which, at this farm, had been shown even to a white man, he was so 
fearful that, as soon as I was gone, Oud Baasje Jacob would seize the 
boy and detain him as a slave, to work for him, that he resolved to 
leave him under my protection ; begging that he might be kindly 
taken care of, and restored to him at our return. 
As soon as this arrangement was agreed to on my part, the father 
and Riizo, hasted away back to the mountains, while the son (Little 
Leanman,) well pleased with his lot, slung his bow and quiver at his 
back, and considered himself now, as one of the Englishman's own 
party. 
As Van Wyk's hospitality, and the business of unloading and 
loading up again, had not delayed us longer than an hour and a 
quarter, we had still four hours' sun to enable us to reach some more 
friendly place. Soon after we left the house, the boor drove off in 
his waggon, and we saw him going across the plain to the eastward, 
for the purpose, as we afterwards heard, of reporting to the veld- 
cornet, that a party of strange men had entered the colony. 
For two hours we rode along a beaten waggon-road, an accom- 
modation which we had not met with for several months, and which 
enabled us with ease to travel at a quicker rate than usual. From 
this we turned out to the right in order to take a nearer path, and 
