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reftraint, without difcipliiie, and without 
friends, were able to iubfift. Yet what ftill 
more furprifed me was, that they ihould fubfift 
with impunity, and poffefs a peaceable abode 
in the midft of twenty different hordes, which 
inceflantly fuffered from their robberies, and 
had not the courage to extirpate them. 
With refped to the robbery which regarded 
myfelf, I here learned fome particulars of 
the manner in which it ad been accomplifhed, 
"with which I was before unacquainted. Bern- 
fry and Moodel, it feems, had given the advice 
and concerted the plan, Thefe two villains, 
united together and worthy of being friends, 
were in allianee with the Boflimen^ On the 
watch for expeditions and enterprifes which 
the Bofhmen may undertake, they give them 
information, point out the means of fucceeding, 
direct the execution, and fliare the profit. 
Moodel in particular, m.ore clofely conneQ:- 
€d with the horde than Bernfry, was at once 
their fpy and protestor. All his cattle were 
kept at their kraal ; alt I faw there had his 
tnarkj and belonged to him ; and the Gheyf- 
fKjuas expreffed their forrow that I did not, as 
a punifh* 
