4H TRAVELS I5r 
habitants at liberty to purfue their own fcHeriiei 
tvithout fettering their induftry, and this part 
of Africa would beeorne the maft flouriftiing 
oh the face of the globe. 
Upon quitting Saldanhsi, I proceeded to- 
wards the habitation of my venerable friend 
Slabeir. His worthy, his amiable family, 
apprifed of my return from my expedition by 
the people with my waggons, and informed 
of my arrival by one of my hunters whom I 
fcnt on before, came to meet me. I was fur- 
prifed not to fee my good friend himlelf with 
his children. They informed me, that fince 
my departure he had been feized with a fe- 
vere dyfentery, and was at the point of death. 
He had been often anxious about me during 
my abfence,and had made refpcding rne every 
poffible enquiry. He had wiflied to embrace 
me once more before he died ; and when he 
faw Swanepoel and Klaas return without me, 
he was alarmed. But they had removed his 
fears by accounting for my delay ; and he ex^ 
peded me with impatience. 
They added, that he was fo extremely ema-* 
dated and fo much altered, that I fhouldfcarcely 
know him : and, as they were apprehenfiv^ 
his 
