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which I could fend my company to procure a 
fupply of water, they fet out themfelves in aa 
inftant, without making me a reply, clambered 
up their mountains, and in lefs than two hours 
brought back all my leather bottles and VQ^Qh 
full of excellent water. 
During the whole time of my refidence on 
the rivulet, they rendered me the fame fervice, 
uniformly difplaying the fame zeal and the fame 
readinefs. One of thefe expeditions would 
have employed my Hottentots a whole day, 
When on a journey, fcarcity of water gives 
them no uneafmefs, even in the middle of a 
defert. By a particular art they can difcover 
water that is concealed in the bowels of the 
earth ; and their inftind:, in this point, is even, 
fuperior to that of the other Africans. Ani- 
mals, in like cafes of diftrefs, find water alfo ; 
but it is only by the fmell. There muft be a 
current of air to convey to them the exhalation 
which rifes from it; and confequently they 
muft be to the windward. While I refided in 
the defert, during my firft journey, my favages 
had fhown more than once the fame faculty ; 
and I myfelf acquired it alfo from their in- 
ftrudion, as I have mentioned in my narrative. 
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