422 TRAVELS IN 
fenfcvS were in nowlfe deranged; I faw death 
approaching vAth flow fteps, and experienced 
all its horrors. 
I had given myfelf over for near a week, 
Vv'hen Swanepoel came to announce to me the 
arrival of fonie Lefs Nimiquas of a neighbour- 
ing horde. Thefe good favages had heard of 
my difor(3er; and, in confequence of the friend^ 
fliip for me with which 1 had the felicity to 
infpire their nation, had come to offer to effeft 
my cure, and piopofe a remedy, for the fuc- 
cefs of which they would pledge themfelves, 
they faid, if I would hut confent to entruft my- 
felf in their hands. 
Could a dying man, fo circumftanced, lifteu 
^ith indifference to the voice that promifed 
him life ? Befides, had poifon been offered me, 
my fuflerings had continued fo long, and were 
become fo infupportable, that from wearinefs, 
and to put an end to them, I fhouid inflantly 
have taken it. I made a fign, therefore, that 
I confented 5 and rny phyficiaqs prepared the 
remedy. 
This too was a hot topical application ; but, 
inftead of being made of milk like the former, 
it confifted of a certain herb ; and, befide the 
cataplafrn^, 
