240 TRAVELS IN 
many Ideas and various fentiments. He who 
experiences them cannot fupport them ; he 
is agitated, oppreffed, and borne down by 
them. 
Being obliged to return on foot, I perceived 
through the trees a ftrange Hottentot on horfe- 
back, taking the neareft way to come up with 
me. Having flopped to wait for him, I found 
that he was an exprefs fent by Mr. Boers» 
He had received orders to enquire concerning 
me in every part of the colonies through 
which I might have pafled ; and to follow my 
traces, when, quitting the known roads, I 
fhould enter the diftant country. This man 
had faithfully executed his commiffion ; and, 
guided by the rvits of my wheels, had vifited 
all my different encampments, and thence 
proceeded till he found me. 
Before I quitted the Cape, Mr. Boers had 
promifed that if he received any letters for me 
from Europe during my abfence, whatever 
route I might purfue, or wherever I might 
be, he would take care to convey them to me. 
This refpe<flable friend kept his word ; and 
in the packet which his Hottentot put into 
my hands I found feveral which bore the 
French ftamp. As thefe were the firft ac- 
counts 
