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weak tea, and this with great difficulty. My 
tongue and throat were fo fwelled, that 1 fpoke 
only by figns. At length my refpiration be- 
came fo painful, and was fo much impeded, 
that I every moment expefted to be fuifa- 
cated. 
The confternatlon of my people became 
general. Klaas and Swanepoel alone entered 
my tent ; and they attended me alternately. 
But when either of them came to me, I im- 
mediately faw the heads of all the reft collecled 
together at the entrance of my tent, and ftretch- 
ed out as far as poffible, endeavouring to rea4 
in his looks what they had to hope or fear, 
AfTuredly, if ever there was a moment in 
my life when I thought myfelf near my end, 
it was this. Thus then two long, laborious, 
and dangerous journeys w^ere to terminate! 
Unable to fpeak, and to give any orders about 
my cplledions, what v;ou!d become of the 
fruit of all my fatigues ! 
Had the fever that conRimed me been ac- 
pompanied with delirium, and had I loft the 
fenfe of my fituation and the painful anxiety 
infeparable from it, I fhould have been lefs 
|)Uiable : but, to my extreme iiiisfortunc, my 
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