AFRICA. 
tvO unyoke him alfo, and proceed as before with 
my two old oxen. 
I had thus irora my barter, one ufelefs ox 
the more, and a borfe the lefs. 
The Hottentot cattle-dealers who accom- 
panied me v/ere the only people who had rea- 
fpn to rejoice at the adventure. The forfaken 
ox was to them a very good windfall. Ac- 
cordingly they remained behind to cut him 
up, and perhaps in their hearts they would 
not have been forry if I had oftener fupplied 
their table in a fimilar manner, 
I was arrived within an hour's march of 
my journey's end when I perceived, in a val- 
ley, a Hottentot hut, ftanding by itfelf, and a 
herd feeding near it. On approaching the hut, 
I found to my furprife a tall and handfome 
damfel. I had feen and have fpoken of her 
before : it 'waa the daiiMter of Van der Well^. 
huyfen ; that daughter Vvho, for feveral days 
together, had held out with the ftouteft of the 
drinkers, caroufing upon the brandy of Pin at 
as heroicaily as the befi: of them. 
Indefatigable In the chace, fhe could hunt 
down on horfeback the largefl: antelope. ' If 
the Bofhmen appeared, fhe would take her 
