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Marching iu this order, we encamped twice. 
At length, on the third day, the Greater Nlmi- 
quas, finding they were near their horde, aflc- 
ed leave to quit me. Certain, however, that 
It would give them pleafure, I refolved to ac-. 
company them, and return them as it were 
myfelf into the hands of their comrades. 
This was not all. Curious to know the 
efFed: that the furprife of our return would 
produce in the kraal, I prohibited any one 
from advancing to announce me ; and in fad: 
they were fo far from expeding us, and our 
arrival was fo fudden, that when they law us 
they were all ftruck dumb with aftoniihment. 
To this motionlefs furprife fucceeded cries 
and fhouts, with jumping, fkipping, and all 
thofe irregular mxovements with which favages 
ufually exprefs the tranfports of joy. The 
whole kraal was foon in confufion ; every one 
congratulated himfelf on finding again com- 
rades, friends, relations, whom he had believed 
to be loft, and defpalred of ever feeing more. 
They were hugged and fmothered with ca- 
refles; while, confefTmg in their fimplicity that 
I had led them to the.worid's end, they height- 
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