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which on her part loved me much. Having 
aflced one of my people if any of them had 
obferved her on the road, one of them affured 
me that he had given her fome food, but in 
the morning. After a fruitlefs fearch of an hour 
or two, I made my people difperfe, and call her 
on all fides : I alfo ordered fome fufees to be 
fired ; that the reports, if they reached her, 
might dired; her what courfe to purfue. But as 
all this did not fucceed, I caufed one of my 
Hottentots to get on horfeback, bidding him 
return the fame w^ay we had come, and bring her 
back to me whatever it might coft. After four 
hours I had the pleafure of feeing my meiTen- 
ger arrive full gallop, carrying before him, on 
the bov/ of his faddle, a chair and a large pan- 
nier. Rofetta ran before him; and leaping 
upon me, almoft opprelTed me with her caref- 
fes. My Hottentot told me that he had found 
her at the diftance of two leagues from the 
place where we halted, fitting upon the road, 
clofe to a chair and a bafeet, which had got 
loofe from our baggage w^ithout being per- 
ceived, I had heard many circumftances, no 
lefs extraordinary ilian this, related of the fide- 
lity of dogs j but I had never before been a 
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