210 TRAVELS IN 
the mountains and the horde whofe fires we 
had feen, and promifed that I would halt there 
for fome days, to give them time to reft them- 
felves, they refumed courage and recovered 
the ufe of their legs. 
About five in the afternoon, we arrived in 
the neighbourhood of the horde. My oxen 
and dogs, having fcented fome water, inftantly 
quitted us, and proceeded as faft as they could 
to the kraal, without its being in our power to 
check or recall them. Their fmell had not de- 
ceived them. They found fome wells ; but, 
as they were fhut, they could only fnuff the 
vapours around without being able to quench 
their thirft. 
It may eafily be imagined how great muft 
have been the farprife of the horde at the 
appearance of all thefe animals. Their fur- 
prife, however, was converted into alarm when 
they beheld my whole party, and obferved near 
them a large body of thofe Houzouanas fo 
much dreaded, with a white man in the midft 
of them, lefs formidable perhaps, but ftill more 
terrifying to a people who had never feen be- 
fore a perfon of his colour. Aftonifhed and 
ftupefied 
