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have given me more pleafure than the agree- 
able furprife of this precipitate arrival. The 
horrid noife made by my dogs immediately 
fpread the alarm; all haftened towards us; 
they knew our voices ; and, even to the moft 
infenfible animals, all feemed to fliare in the 
general joy: above all, we could not difen* 
gage ourfelves from my dogs, which teazed 
us by their carefles and ftunned us with their 
barking. Another fpe£lacle however ap- 
peared to me no lefs interefting : my family 
had increafed confiderably : at my departure 
a fmall detachment from the worthy Gona- 
quas had quitted their horde, and had efta- 
bliflied themlelves in the fame place which 
I afligned to the CafFres, where they had 
conftrudled feveral new huts. They in- 
formed me, and indeed I plainly faw by the 
admirable order that prevailed in the camp, 
that every thing had been quiet during my 
ab fence : we had been the whole fubje6t of 
converfatiou to thofe we had left. Every 
evening Swanepoel gave me the moft favour- 
able accounts of each feparately ; he told me, 
that the firft fifteen days having elapfed with- 
out hearing any news of me, he could not 
help entertaining a little fear, and that he 
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