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were in full bloffom, they perfumed the fur- 
rounding air with their fweet and dehcious 
odour. Birds of a thoufand fpecies, and moft 
beautiful infers, detained me here till the 8th ; 
when having obferved that, notwithftanding 
the large fupply of pins which I had carried 
with me from the Cape, they began to run 
fhort, it came into my head to replace them 
by the fmall prickles of the mimofa, which 
anfwered the fame purpofe. 
Leaving the Sondag behind me, I met fix- 
teen Hottentots with their arms and baggage 
on the banks of the Swart-Rivier^ or Black 
River. They had left Camdebo, to join, at the 
bottom of the fnow mountains, the horde 
which we had left there ; and I learned from 
them that they had been compelled to this 
emigration by formidable troops of Boflimen, 
w^ho were carrying fire and fword through 
Camdebo, and burning the plantations, in order 
to carry away the ammunition, arms, and 
whole riches of the inhabitants. Nothing 
could difconcerc me more than this intelli- 
gence, equally ungracious and unexpeded ; 
for it ralfed the alarm in every breaft, and re- 
vived our former terrors. Perfuaded that any 
farther explanation would only difturb the 
xmaginatiou3 
