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fcnts ; and I gave them for their chief a fmall 
portion of tobacco, defiring them to inform 
him, that I intended to pay my refpeds to him 
in perfon, and that next morning I tvould be 
at the kraal with my whole company. We 
were not able, however, to fet out till after 
dinner, becaufe the oxen I had purchafed at 
the laft horde had returned thither during the 
night, and it was nccefiary to difpatch fome of 
my people to bring them back* 
The chief, accompanied by his v/hole horde^ 
came two-thirds of the way to meet me ; and 
I found him vv'^aitlng my arrival on the banks 
of a rivulet. As my appearance excited among^ 
this horde the fame eagernefs, the fame fur* 
prife, and the fame curiofuy, as among the 
horde I had quitted, I fhall not repeat what I 
have fi\id already. It confifted alfo of Kabobi- 
quas; and confequently their manners, cuftom.s^ 
arms, and charader, were the fam.e. 
The only difference I obferved was, that In 
the former the men only v/ore fandals 5 but 
in this horde they were worn by every body ; 
men, women, and chlklren. This cullom, 
however, does not proceed either from luxury 
or efFemipacVj but from an indifpenfibic and 
neceflary 
