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for I foon faw him venture to open their 
mouths, plunder their pouches* of the al- 
monds they had plucked from the tree 
called geel'houtj and confign them to his 
own. * 
My encampment in this place became 
highly interefting, and afForded me much 
riches : befides this, it was very agreeable to 
my people, and fiipplied plenty of provificns 
for my cattle. I remained in it, therefore, 
till the 28th, and left it with much regret. 
It was one of thofe which made me fenfible 
how eafy it would have been for me to for- 
get that there are other climates, other man- 
ners, and other plcafures. 
In the morning of the day following we 
decamped, and, after travelling three hours, 
we met a few favage Hottentots, who were 
driving feme fheep before them, and going 
to join their refpective hordes, from which 
they had feparated ; but for what purpofe I 
did not learn. As I wanted provifions, I 
* Naturalifts remark that apes have, between their 
cheeks and the inferior jaw-bones, a kind of bags or 
pouches, which ferve them as magazines, in which they 
occafionally preferve fuch fruits as they have not time, or 
are not difpofed to eat, till they are hungry. 
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