AFRICA. 19 
terSj efcortlng one of my people, who was 
appointed to carry a box containing two /ed 
handkerchiefs, fome copper rings, knives, 
pieces of fteel for tinder-boxes, and fome 
other prefents wdiich I intended to give to 
the horde. Amiroo marched at our head, to 
direfl: us in the proper way. 
We firft advanced along the banks of the 
river, going againft its current for near an 
hour ; after which Amiroo made us quit it, 
and conduced us between two high moun- 
tains, in a narrow defile, the length and wind- 
ings of which were not lefs than two leagues. 
At the extremity of this valley, having re- 
turned to within a few paces of the river, the 
country opened before us; and from this fpot 
pointing out with his finger a fmail eminence 
upon which I obferved a kraal, our guide 
informed us that we Jfhould there find Haa- 
bas. It was ftilj about ten gun-fliots diftant 
from us. The road indeed had been longer 
than I expedled ; for we employed full three 
hours in this march. When I was within 
two hundred paces of the horde, I difcharged 
both my fhot, and ordered my four hunters 
to do the fame. The two others, whom I 
had fent before, returned our falute, by dlf- 
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