AFRICA. 
met with a horde of favage Hottentots, whofe 
kraal was fituated juft at the foot of the 
mountains, I refolved to pay them a vifit; but 
I carried with me only three of my beft markf- 
men and the perfon who had given me this 
intelligence. Next morning, at the break of 
day, we had fcarcely advanced halfway when 
we met five of thefe people, who of their 
own accord were coming towards my camp 
to fee me. They however turned back, and 
conducted me to their habitation, where their 
children, as foon as they efpied me, ran dif- 
ferent ways to conceal themfelves, fending 
forth horrible cries. This general confter- 
nation appeared to me very unnatural, and 
difconcerted all my Ideas; for, when I firft 
entered the horde of Haabas and that of feve- 
ral others, the women and the children had 
indeed retired, but by their behaviour they 
Ihewed neither fear nor apprehenfion. Being 
very defirous to difcover the caufe of this 
terror, I was informed that thefe people had 
been eftablhhed only a fhort while in the 
place where I faw them; that in'Camdebo, 
their own country, they had experienced a 
thoufand perfecutions fron:> the planters ; 
that, 
