AFRICA. 
Ill 
kill tliem on the fpot, and to carry them to 
the kraal in pieces for provifion. 
Notwithftanding their poverty, thefe favages 
dilplayed the difrntereftednefs and generofity 
peculiar to their nation. Though I had diftri- 
buted among them, in prefents, only a few- 
paltry articleSj they brought every evening to 
my camp a confiderable quantity of milL 
During the time I fpent among them, which 
was eight days (becaufe, the mimofas being in 
full bloffbm, I found thereon many infeds and 
birds), fome followed me to the chace with a 
view of rendering me any little fervice in their 
power, and others ran every where about the 
neighbourhood to procure me infers. On 
my part, ^ I made it my duty and a pieafure 
to oblige them. My markfmen went out 
to hunt for them rhinocerofes and elephants; 
and though they were not able, during my 
whole ftay, to get near one of thefe ihy 
animals, they killed nearly a fcore of ante- 
lopes, and feveral buifaloes, the greater part of 
which were given up to the horde. The buf- 
faloes were exadxly of the fame kind as thofe 
we had killed on the eaftern coaft. They 
Were 
