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was impoffible for me to march in the night- 
time, for this would have deprived me of 
every advantage ; and the greater part of my 
oxen were rendered unfit for fervice by a 
difeafe in their hoofs ; fo that not being 
able to relieve thofe that were in a found con- 
dition, I made them fet out before us with a 
ftrong guard, in order that we might not be 
retarded in our march, 
; When I arrived in this manner at Knga- 
Fontyn^ or the Fountain of Kriga, my oxen 
found as much water as they had occafion for ; 
but it was fo brackifh, that the Hottentots who 
drank of it were feized with colics and vio- 
lent diarrhoeas. As Iwas founding the foil, 
and examining whether this water might not 
caufe diforders ftill more dangerous, I was 
greatly furprifed to obferve Kees, who was 
always the firft every where, draw from the 
vefTel a crab of about three or four inches in 
diameter. This circumftance was indeed moft 
aftonifhing, as the fountain was furrounded 
by folid rock, and had no apparent outlet what-?- 
ever. My ape feemed to eat his crab with fo 
much pleafure, that I ordered thirty of them 
to be caught \ and when they were roafted I 
found them excellent. Four o jfive difcharges 
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