1 58 Travels i^r 
wavering in uncertainty, neither knowing 
what to think nor what orders to give to the 
reft of my troop, to put an end to their dif- 
pures and uneafmefs. My brave Klaas was 
of opinion that we ought ftill to wait, and to 
fufFer fuch of my mutinous attendants as 
Ihewed moft impatience and ill humour to 
depart when they thought proper. 
In the mean time I affumed an air of tran- 
quillity, and continued my hunting excur* 
fions as ufual ; but a fecret impulfe conduc- 
ed me, as it were mechanically, to that quar- 
ter in which I hoped to fee ray deputies ar- 
rive. In the evening, being quite deje£led 
becaufe they had not appeared, I returned to 
my camp, in order to recommence the fame 
ufelefs and melancholy walk next morning* 
Thus do we fport with the imagination, when 
tve are in hopes of finding the objedt that 
we ardently wifli for. 
One evening at length Klaas came, and 
fnut himfelf up with me in my tent, in order 
to give the finilhing ftroke to my uneafinefs, 
by informing me that he had loft every hope, 
and that Hans and his companions were 
without doubt affaffinated; that .the fufees, 
ammunition, and arms which they carried 
along 
