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a detachment of my people to the neighbour-^ 
hood of the torrent, which we were about to 
pafs, with orders to fill up the fiflures, and re- 
pair the highways which the waters had fpoilt: 
I made them carry ftones and large branches 
of trees with them, to render the quagmires 
paffable ; which, without this precaution, might 
have disjointed, and even broken^ my carriages. 
When by the force of exceffive labour we had 
fmoothed every pafs, on the 30th of April I 
caufed my caravan to file off before me ; and 
calling my eye, for the laft time, on the de- 
lightful hermitage of Pampoen-Kraal, quitted 
it with the fame regret as that with which a 
lover feparates from his miftrefs. I often after- 
wards enquired refpedlng this happy afylum ; 
and I had the fatisfadlion of learning that it 
had not only been refpeded, but that the Hot- 
tentots had named it after me. 
Notwithftanding all my precaution, we 
found great diiEcuIty at Kayman^s Hoky as 
w^ell as at a river called by the Hottentots in 
their language Krakede-Kau^ which fignifies 
the girls ford. This country was formerly 
inhabited by Hottentots^ who are all now 
extind or difperfed: the deep pits which are 
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