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be fecure from* the attacks of the Bofhmen, 
and had formed a little kraal near the camp. 
And thus it is that in the infancy of nations 
towns are formed. A few feeble individuals 
feek an afylum near the ftrong. By degrees 
the fociety increafes ; trade draws ftrangers to 
It ; and, as it augments in number, wealth, and 
llrength, it infenfibly becomes a people, and 
adopts a form of government. Into this fnare 
their happinefs frequently falls a facrifice. 
The news of my arrival having reached the 
horde of Bernfry, he forgot the complaints I 
had sgainft him^ and came to pay m^e a vifit. 
Meeting, however, with a very unwelcome 
reception both from Swanepoel and me, he 
liftened to us for a while without a word of 
reply, and then turned his back upon us ; which 
pleafed me, as I hoped, by this unfuccefsful at- 
tempt, I fliould be delivered in future from his 
knavifh tricks. 
In the difierent excurfions that Swanepoel 
and Klaas Bafter had made to procure oxen, 
they had killed a large monkey, of a peculiar 
fpecies, the fi^in of which they had perfedly 
preferved, following the method which they 
had feen me employ. This animal, two feet 
and 
