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warm baths, which are the laft refource of 
fick people in Africa. This information threw 
a gloom over my mind, and embittered the 
rem.ainder of myjom*ney. 
Eagerly defirous of feeing a friend who 
had many claims qn my friendfhip, I wifhed^ 
to haften my journey ; but the fear of findings 
him in a languifhing condition corrupted the 
pleafure which I enjoyed by anticipation* 
Thefe two planters forewarned me that I 
would fulfer much by the way, on account of 
the drought and want of water; and that, as 
I carried a great number of cattle along with me, 
I could hope for no refources but in the ftormy 
rains which might come on : that, befides 
thefe inconveniences, the country v>ras infefted 
by the Bofhmen; and that they had even 
plundered them of thirty-two oxen, and maf- 
facred their herdfmen, at the pafTage of the 
Black River. This laft part of their intelli- 
gence did not prevent me from proceednig ; 
for, flacj the example of feverity which I had 
been tckfitd to give, my people never {hewed 
any figna of timidity, and I believe that along 
with me they would have been capable of 
braving all the banditti of Camdebo. I was 
however unwilling to expofe them raflily : it 
was 
