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du6l. Their obftreperous joy fubfided by 
degrees ; and at length, giving way to fatigue, 
they withdrew into their huts to fieep, and the 
noife ceafed altogether. 
Day appeared, to the fatisf^dlion of my im- 
patience, which I could fcarce reftrain. But 
1 then perceived that we had badly calculated 
our diftance. Our poll was fo far froni the 
kraal, that our fliot would hardly reach It. 
We were obliged, therefore, to quit: the bufli; 
and approach nearer the huts : but we left our 
two oxen and my tvyq horfes fheltered by it, 
with a man to take care of them, that they 
might be ready for my ufe if we experienced 
a check. 
Certain that all the people of the kraal 
were faft afleep, we advanced openly, and took 
poft in front of it within gun-fhot. The 
kraal was of confiderable fize, appearing to 
contain about thirty or fprty huts. It was built 
on the fide of a hill, about half way up its accli- 
vity, and behind it a range of lofty mountains 
arofe like an amphitheatre. 
All our guns were loaded, which I thought 
a neceffary precaution : yet it was not my in- 
tention to commence hoftilities by the effufion 
