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me to profecute it, and bring it to a conclu- 
fion. 1 then paid him what wages were due ; 
made him deliver up his efFeds and fome pro- 
vifions, and threatened to purfue him as I 
would do a wild beaft^ ihould he ever again 
appear in my prefence. He was fo much 
ftiuck and abafhed by this apoftrophe, and 
the vehemence with w^hich I pronounced thefe 
laft words, that he fnatched up his wallet and 
retired with precipitation. My -people con- 
je61:ured that he would make for the neareft 
plantation, or join the Hottentots whom we 
had met in the morning; and I entertained 
a notion that he would have offered fome ex- 
cufe for his condud!) or that fome of his com- 
panions would have interceded for him ; but 
I was extremely glad that he purfued another 
courfe. This feverity proved of the greateft 
fervice to me, and, during the reft of my 
journey, was attended with all that effe£t 
which I expedled. 
I quitted the river Camdebo on the 9th of * 
February, at which time feveral of my oxen 
being attacked by the klauw-Jikte^ they found 
the journey very laborious. As eafe and re- 
frefhments VN^ere the only remedies that could 
fpeediiy reftore them to their former ftate, I 
7 . chofe 
