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forced to dig wells, and to become wander^rs^ 
have remained, neverthelefs, in the inferiority 
of the favage ftate. Nature, perhaps, who 
has beftowed upon the Kabobiquas bodies 
more agile, and a more intrepid charader^ 
may have endowed them alfo with fuperior 
minds. 
To the KabobiQiias I am indebted for my 
knowledge of the place where Orange-River 
has its fource. I imagined that this river 
ctame from the central mountains; but they 
informed me, that, though in its progrefs it 
feemed to approach them, it took its rife at a 
great diftance in the mountains fituated far- 
tlier to the north-^aft, and that it did not 
reach the former till after a winding courfe 
of Gonfiderable length* 
In cohfequence of one of their emigrations, 
they had formerly fettled on its banks, fixty 
leagues from the defert which they now inha- 
bited ; but being molefted by the Houzouanas, 
and difappointed by the drought, they had re- 
moved from it, and came to encamp again in 
the fpot where I found them. 
Of all the African nations, they are the 
only people among whom I found any idea^ 
however 
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