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threw me on my fide. My fall was fo fevere, 
that, when I rofe, I could not ufe my left arm^ 
and 1 Imagined my flioulder to be diflocated. 
Klaas came to me : I ordered him to remount 
the horfe, while I returned to the camp on 
foot, unable to take any part in this adventure, 
and leaving my people to terminate it in the 
beft way they could. It was night before 
they returned when I learned, with forrow, 
that two of the Bolhmen had been killed* 
All my oxen, however, were brought back 
except three ; and thcfe v/ere not milTed till 
we vv^ere about to depart the next day. 
That the robbers might not make another 
attempt, 1 departed at day-break ; and by a 
march of fix or feven hours, In the fame 
diredion as the day before, I arrived at a 
place where I was met by fome Hottentots of 
the horde of Klaas Bafter, who knew me, 
They informed us, that his horde had quitted 
the mountains of Namero, and had fettled 
five leagues from the fpot where I was. 
Bafter being ftill with me, I conceived my- 
felf bound in gratitude, after the important 
fervices I had received at his hands, to re- 
ftore him, inperfon^ to the arms of his wife, 
his 
