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PROSPECT ON LEAVING LITAKUN. 
3 Aug. 1812. 
towards Litakun, left us to pursue our journey unmolested and 
alone. 
My own men, feeling themselves now freed from a place where 
they had been living in a state of fear and uneasiness, regained, in 
proportion as we increased our distance from it, somewhat of their 
usual mood, and began to encourage a hope that I should ultimately 
relinquish all intention of returning. But, as I was desirous of com- 
pleting my knowledge of this tribe, or, at least, of collecting inform- 
ation on many subjects with which I considered myself as not yet 
sufficiently acquainted, I had resolved not to allow the troublesome 
manners of the inhabitants to deter me from an abode among them 
as long as there appeared a prospect of obtaining there any portion 
of the principal object of my travels, or of acquiring that kind of 
experience which I deemed necessary to success in my future pro- 
gress through the unknown regions of the Interior. 
The narrative of these travels having now proceeded as far as it 
was intended, the two following chapters, containing observations 
extracted principally from the subsequent parts of the journal, are 
added for the purpose of completing the work as an account of the 
inhabitants of the interior regions of Southern Africa, and more 
especially for conveying as much general information as may be 
sufficient for filHng up the description of the Bachapins. 
