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made no difficulty in acceding to it. Accord- 
ingly I decamped, and direfted my courfe to- 
wards the mountains. After two days fliort jour- 
ney, we arrived in a pleafant valley, fliaded by 
a prodigious number of mimofas in full bloom, 
and where we found feveral herds of cattle, 
v\hich denoted fome Hottentots to be in the 
neighbourhood. 
The Nimiquas having advanced with Klaas 
to announce my coming, we foon faw the 
whole horde approaching. At this fight my 
people exprefled the higheft joy. You would 
have faid, that, after having eicaped from 
aflaffins, they had found protectors to place 
their lives in a ftate of fecurity. They con- 
gratulated each other^ fqueezed the hands 
of the new comers, prefled them to their breafts^ 
and overwhelmed them with exprefEons of 
friendlliip. Had they been their acqoaintaace 
or relations, they could not have difplayed 
more tranfport. The beauty of the pailures, 
which every where covered the feet of the 
mountains, made us refolve to fpend a few days 
near the horde. 
When my tent was eredled, the chief of 
the horde came to fee me, and give me very 
R 3 agreeable 
