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fignals, however, were equally fruitlefs as be- 
fore ; but thefe adive people had carried all 
my leather bottles with them to the top of the 
mountains ; and, when they returned, they 
brought them back filled with frelh water. 
On my departure from Orange-River, I had 
provided myfelf Vv ith a great number of thefe 
bottles, which I had caufed to be made of 
fheep's fkins, in imitation of thofe invented by 
my people to contain the oil of their whale. 
They were commonly carried by the women, 
either on their backs, aSxed to a ftrap, or fuf- 
pended between two from a flick which each 
held by one end ; but the Houzouanas, from 
the -time they formed a part of my caravan, 
were fo polite as to eafe the women of this 
burden ; and, while they accompanied me, thefe 
veffels were always carried by them. 
The chain of mountains extended in a 
fouthern diredion. We continued our journey 
for two whole days along its courfe ; and we 
every where found pafture for our cattle, and 
water in the rocks for ourfelves. This route, 
however, thwarted the defire I had of pene- 
trating farther to the weft, thereby to approach 
the borders of the fea. 
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