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them to make ropes. But to what labour did 
this fatal operation fubject us ! "We were ob* 
liged to unload our carriages, to take oS their 
wheels, and to embark them piece by piece. 
All my animals croffed by fwimming ; and in 
feveral paffages I reached the oppofite fliore, 
with my people and effeds, without the fmalleft 
diforder, or the lead accident. This attempt* 
which was attended with wonderful fuccefs, 
gave me great confidence refpe£ting the future* 
and tended greatly to increafe my courage.— 
This operation, however, coft us three days 
continued labour ; during which time I was 
obliged to fufpend my hunting excurfions. I 
myfelf fet an example to the reft, and handled 
the axe like the meaneft of my Hottentots. I 
judged the precaution of removing a little 
farther very neceffary to our common fafety ; 
for the banks of the river which we had quit- 
ted were fo parched and fo barren, that all my 
oxen muft have died of hunger. 
Our carriages being remounted, and well 
loaded, we continued our journey, and tra- 
velled fourteen leagues in two days, when 
we found ourfelves oppofite MoJfe/-Baiey or 
Mufcle Bay, which in charts is called the 
Bay 
