^64 TRAVELS IN 
deteftable Bofhmen, enemies to every nation 
without diftindllon, and plunderers by profef- 
lion, from whom we could expe£l no kind of 
friendflilp. We however conjectured that 
they were fome of the latter, becaufe the 
CafFres never inhabit the mountains ; we 
therefore took the precaution to extinguifli 
pur fires, and we fpent the reft of the night 
very peaceably. 
Our firft care, when we awoke, was to 
endeavour to difcover with more certainty 
where, and by whom, the fire we had feen 
the preceding evening had been kindled. 
The weather was exceedingly favourable for 
obferving the fmoke, but it appeared that the 
fire was extingulflied, for we faw nothing 
more of it. Being thus deprived of a fixed 
point of diredlon, we fet out to enter the 
hollow defiles, where we were likely to be in 
danger of lofing ourfelves, Nevertheiefs, as 
my Hottentots, perfuaded that thefe people 
were not Caftres, appeared willing to purfuc _ 
their route that way at the rlik of every thing 
that might happen, and as our plan natu- 
rally conducted us thither, we packed up, our 
baggage in great hafte, and bid adieu to Kees- 
fountaino " 
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