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might Imagine either that fome unforefeeii 
misfortune had befallen me ; or that, tired of 
waiting for them, I had refolved to depart, 
and continue my journey. Such a ftep 
* would have thrown them into the utmoft 
cmbarraffment ; and, for my part, I was too 
much interefted in the fate of my two 
friends to defert them ; nor would all the 
birds of Africa have induced me to be guilty 
of fo bafe an aftion, I refolved, therefore, 
to remain where I was till they fhould ar-* 
rive ; but I determined to bring back all my 
people to their former exercifes, and I my- 
felf firft gave the example, 
I did not fail either, according to my 
ufual cuftom, to devote a part of every even* 
ing to my journal 5 and it was here that I 
at length began to be acquainted with thofe 
differences which diftinguifli one Hottentot 
from another, and particularly the Gonaquas 
from all the other hordes I had before feen. 
The kraal of Haabas, at the diftance of 
about four hundred paces from the river 
GroQt-Vis, was fuuated on the declivity of 
a little hill, which extended with an ealy 
Hope to the bottom of a chain of mountains," 
clothed with a foreft of very Jarge trees ; a 
fmall 
