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fent to procure provifions, and four other 
people who guarded my cattle at pafture, 
there was not one of them that ever went 
out of my fight. As for me, I remained con- 
tinually in my camp, where I fpent whole 
days in converfing with the CafFres, and in 
making an interpreter explain their anfwers 
to thofe queftions which I every moment put 
to them, from a defire of being inftrufted, 
and receiving certain information refpedling 
this nation, ffiU lefs known than that of the 
Hottentots. Our mutual embarraffment, and 
the difficulty of tranflating our different ex- 
prefTions, wafted, I muft own, great deal 
of time. The knowledge I acquired every 
day came fo flowly, and amounted to fo 
little, that I fpent a whole week in thefe la- 
borious converfations : but finding at length 
nothing but afFabllity and probity amongfl 
them, and being convinced that they adled 
fincerely and without deceit, I was under 
much lefs reflraint : I laid afide fome of my 
rcferve, and obliged all my people to be per- 
feftly eafy amongft them. 
In a little finite, a better acquaintance with 
their language rendered our converfations 
much more intereiling; I began to make my- 
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