SOUTHERN AFRICA. 231 
the colonists, but had alwajs remained about the spot where 
we found them, subsisting bj the cliace, and upon the roots 
of the earth. Appearances certainly were much in their fa- 
vor ; no bones nor horns of animals were found near the 
horde ; no skins but those of joung elands, springboks, tigers, 
and jackals. One woman in the whole party had a single 
sheep's skin thrown over her shoulders, which was very in- 
dustriously pointed out by the boors as a proof of then- havr- 
ing been plundered by the people of this horde. 
Before the men were sent away from the waggons a present 
was made to each of tobacco, beads, knives, flints, and steels ; 
and they were desired to tell all their countrymen they might 
happen to see, that whenever they should desist from stealing 
the cattle of the colonists, and should come to any of the 
farm-houses without bow and arrows, or other weapons, and 
plead distress, as many or more sheep would be given to 
them than they could possibly expect to obtain by plunder. 
They were assured that our present journey into their coun- 
try was for no other intention than to give them an oppor- 
tunity of putting a final stop to all expeditions against them, 
if, by a change of their conduct, they were inclined to avail 
themselves of it. Having remained with us very contentedly 
for a few days, they returned to their kraal highly pleased 
with the treatment they had met with, and with the presents 
they had received. 
The horde or kraal consisted of five-and-twenty huts, each 
made of a small grass-mat bent into a semicircle, and fast- 
ened down in this form between two sticks ; open before, but 
