AFRICA. 
fill arid Intrepid guides fhould leave me, with- 
out giving them fome teftimony of my fatif- 
fadion and gratitude ; but I was in doubt what 
would be moft agreeable to them. 
My ftock of tobacco was fo diminifhed, 
that I had been obliged for fome time to be 
ftridily economical in my diftributions: befidcs, 
thefe fober metij leading a wandering life at 
fuch a diftance from the colony, are fo ac- 
cuftomed to do without it, that the want of it 
cofts them little. Oh glafs beads they fet 
fcarcely any value. What would have been 
mofl acceptable to them was a knife : but I had 
hot itluch more than half-a-dozen left, and of 
courfe I could Hot give one to each. I re« 
folved, therefore, to diftribute four among 
them ; and, that no one might have reafon to 
be dilTatisfied, I propofed that they flbould flioot 
at a mark, and that the four who came neareft 
to it fhould each have a knife. 
This exercife was a fort of feftival for my 
caravan. For my own part, exclufive of the 
amufemeht I expeded from it, it would teach 
me, from their addrefs in handling their arms, 
how far the Hcuzouanas were formidable ; 
and I fhould fix in their memories an event, 
0^2 which 
