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wounded, that I was obliged to kill her : this 
indeed was a real lofs. I regretted her mu^chij 
for jQie was about to bring forth young. 
The weather at length changing, we quit- 
ted our lake; and about noon, after croffing 
two rivers, the great and the little Swaar-Kops^ 
I ordered my oxen to be unyoked on the banks 
of the latter. Having obferved the prints of fome 
animaFs feet with which I was not acquaintedjj 
my people, to whom I fhewed them, afrure4 
me that they were not thofe of the rhinoceros. 
Whilft my camp was arranging, I followed 
thefe tr?vces ; but night coming on made me 
iofe them, and I returned without having feea 
any thing. On this river, which was pretty 
confiderable, we found another horde of fa- 
vages. The kraal was compofed of nine or tea 
huts, inhabited only by fifty or fixty perfons 
at moil. - Thefe people advifed me not to crofs 
the river Boffiman, v;hich pafTes near this 
place : they faid it would be much better to 
turn off to the left, and to pufh farther into 
the interior part of the country, to avoid a 
numerous troop of CafFres, who often alarmed 
that canton, and carried fire and fv/ord along 
with them ; that nothing was feen every where 
around but diforder and pillage, fields ravaged, 
and 
