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certainly passed over her head. She produced her eldest daugh- 
ter, who* headed five generations. On being asked whether 
her memory could carry her back to the time when the 
Christians first came among them ? she replied, with a shake 
of the head, that she had very strong reasons to remember it, 
for that before she had ever heard of the Christians, she knew 
not the want of a bellyful, whereas it was now a difficult 
matter to get a mouthful. The condition of the whole horde 
certainly appeared to be very deplorable ; but I feel a hap- 
piness in adding, that, by means of this captain and two or 
three well-disposed farmers, several hordes of the outcast 
Bosjesmans have since been brought in, and obtained by 
public subscription a considerable quantity of sheep and 
horned cattle, of which, it is to be hoped, they will speedily 
see the advantage of increasing the numbers. 
On the morning of the fifth of May, after dropping the 
commandant at his own house, I proceeded inland to the 
eastward, and, passing over a rough stony country, reached, 
in two days the foot of the Hantam mountain. The in- 
habitants at this time were in a state of alarm, on account of 
the Bosjesmans. A party of these people had carried off^, 
into the kloofs of the mountain, several sheep and oxen, after 
severely wounding two Hottentots with poisoned arrows, one 
t|iroiigh the upper part of the arm, and the other in the ankle 
joint. The former seemed likely to do well, but the latter 
was in a very dangerous way. The point of the arrow had 
broken off and stuck in the bone. The leg was swollen as 
high as the knee, and gangrene appeared to have commenced 
round the wound. The people not knowing in what manner 
