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ZEBRA. — SENDING FOR MUCHUNKA. 
9 — 11 June, 
already reduced to six ; and gave them a message urging the neces- 
sity of its being dehvered to us, especially as it was our due. Daniel, 
therefore, paid them their demand, although, as he said, Cupido had 
gone away, without leaving any instructions at home respecting the 
debt. 
At noon Gert and Cornells arrived from Klaarwater with the 
horses. I now congratulated myself on beholding at length, my 
whole party removed away from that village ; a place, of which the re- 
collection afforded me but little pleasure. The numerous vexatious 
occurrences and disappointments which I there met with, put my 
patience severely to the trial ; while, to counterbalance these, few 
circumstances were found, to give my mind those agreeable im- 
pressions which I had anticipated when in Cape Town. The reality 
was indeed, different from the picture. But — I had now quitted 
it, and began to feel at ease again. 
My men were this day employed chiefly in trying their guns, 
and in putting every thing relating to them, in proper order. It was 
established as a standing regulation, 'that the oxen should never, 
excepting through want of pasturage, be suffered to graze out of 
sight of the waggons ; and that they should every night be made 
fast. 
Speelman, whose future employment on the journey, was to be 
that of hunting, went out this morning, and in a few hours, returned, 
having shot a zebra; which, however, could not be fetched home till 
the next day. This meat though much eaten by Hottentots, is, as 
already noticed, rejected by the colonists : my two baptized men, 
therefore, informed me, that they were unable to eat it ; and, as 
they declared that it always created a nausea, I suffered a sheep to 
be killed, as we had no other game to give them. I thus soon began 
to perceive, that I had with me, two men who were of a class supe- 
rior to Hottentots. 
\Oth. It having been previously agreed on, that my interpreter 
Muchunka should join me at this place, I sent off Philip, Speelman, 
and Stuurman, at sunrise to find their way to Willem Casper's (or 
Jafter's) under the Langberg, where he was residing j to let him know 
