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eafinefs, and being well fed In my camp, were 
happy in remaining, and feemed not to think 
of their departure. But I had engeiged to fend 
them back in a week, and 1 kept my word. 
I gave them all more than I had promifed. 
The prefent defigned for the chief was en- 
trufted to his daughter, as he had defired ; and 
I added thereto a pretty red handkerchief for 
herfelf, and fome white glafs beads, which fhe 
highly valued. She had been treated with 
diftindion in my camp. No convenience had 
been denied her, not even that of anointing; 
and I fometimes attended her toilette, which 
indeed v\^as always the fame, but I every time 
received frefh pleafure in obferving the pains 
fhe took to adorn and difplay her charms, the 
fight of which rendered me every day more 
referved and circumfpeG. 
This troop had fcarcely departed, when 
another arrived, confifting of thirty-fix perfons, 
men and women. Thefe were Hottentots who 
refide on the confines of the colony, and who, 
buying at fecond or third hand certain com- 
modities from the planters, travel into the in- 
terior of the country there to barter them with 
other lavages for cattle, which on their return 
they 
