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very fatlsfadory anfwer. I obferved that this 
man,.befides the Hottentot language, fpoke 
alfo pretty good Dutch. He offered very 
readily to ferve me as guide to my camp, to 
pafs the night there, and to return with me 
next morning to the horde. He was over- 
joyed to find countrymen with whom he could 
converfe in his maternal tongue ; and I was 
equally glad to find in him a confidence which 
contributed to ftrengthen mine. I accepted his 
offer, therefore, with gratitude, and we imme- 
diately fet out. 
My readers will not doubt, that my firft 
<uire on the road was to alk him, by what ad- 
venture he had been tranfplanted among the 
Houzouanas. He informed me, that he was born 
in the neighbourhood of the Camis, and had 
lived feveral years fubjed to the company ; but 
that, having been treated in various inftances 
with injuftice, he had deferted with a negro 
Have belonging to the fame mafter, and, after 
wandering about for a long time, had at laft 
foughtanafylum and protedion among the Hou- 
zouanas. The negro had died from the effed 
of a polfoned arrow, by which he was wound- 
ed in a (kirmifh the horde had been engaged 
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