AFRICA. 
imaginations of my timid Hottentots ftill 
more, I immediately ordered them all to fol- 
low me. They had already begun to fpeak of 
returning the fame way we had come, and I 
looked forward to the moment when my au- 
thority was about to be at an end ; but the 
braveft of my people, who did not hefitate to 
accompany me, induced all the reft to imitate 
their example. Having obferved that Slinger, 
who gave me fo much caufe to complain of 
his conduct at Koks-Kraal, fhewed here the 
greateft refiftance, and that even this day he 
performed his fervice in a very fufpicious 
manner, I determined, for the firft time, to 
make an example of him, to intimidate thofe 
daftardly companions whom he had feduced. 
In the evening, when I arrived at the river 
Camdebo, which takes its name from the 
country it traverfes, I fignified to him that 
he fliould inftantly quit my caravan; reproach- 
ing him at the fame time with having been 
the firft promoter of that fear and confter- 
nation,whichhad prevented all my people from 
following me into CafFraria, and with having 
obliged me by his culpable refiftance to aban- 
don the nobleft part of my projeds, for want 
of ftrength, courage, and affiftance, to enable 
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