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I believe, gave them a higher opinion of the qualifications of white- 
men. 
Mattivi's principal herdsman, who generally brought a small 
calabash of milk, said that he had received orders to supply me 
with some every day ; adding, that he would always bring it him- 
self, that he might be assured of its being regularly delivered to 
me. But the real cause of his punctuality, was the present or pay- 
ment of a piece of tobacco, which he never failed to demand. And 
besides this, the Chief himself always expected a daily present of the 
same kind, in consideration of his ' royal bounty so that I gene- 
rally paid twice over for what he often alluded to as a proof of his 
generous and friendly disposition towards me : and as a further proof 
of his friendship, he frequently, when thirsty, did me the favor to 
come to my waggon and, signifying his wishes with, ^Mpd maashe 
(Give me some milk), drink up generally half of what he had sent 
me only an hour or two before. I soon discovered the truth of what 
the Hottentots had said at Klaarwater ; when they told me in their 
Dutch, In de Briqualand zal Mynheer nicks kryg voor nicks; ' In 
Briqualand you will get nothing for nothing.' 
While I was thus engaged in the town, some of my men were 
employed in hunting in the neighbouring plains ; and in the evening 
two paalas and a stonebuck were brought home : others went to the 
river, and passed the day in that very unromantic occupation of 
washing our linen. 
In the evening, when we were all reassembled round the fire, 
the sound of our music enlivened the mootsi, and attracted to our 
hut the great milk-giving Chief and his brothers. Several boys, 
when they had ended their daily business of attending the cattle, 
came and spent the remainder of their time with the Hottentots : 
they listened so attentively to the tunes which were played on 
our violin, that they soon learnt them perfectly, and often gave me 
the pleasure of hearing them sung with a readiness and correctness 
which surprised me ; while I felt some gratification from the idea of 
our being most probably the first visitors who had actually introduced 
among them a European air. 
