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gnawed. From the lire It appeared evident 
that the favages who had flopped here, hac} 
ajlb paffed the night on the lame fpot ; but, 
on feeing the gnawed bones, I could fcarcely 
allow myfelf to believe that they had been 
Caffrcs, becaufe thefe people never breed 
Iheep. It was, however, poffible that they 
might have procured them by plunder, or 
have found them among their enemies. During 
the uncertainty into which thefe refledlons had 
thrown me, I refolved to advance Itlll farther; 
until being at length tired of traverfmg and 
ranging the country, finding that thefe traces 
led us too far from our route, and conducted us 
to one dlredly oppofite to that which we ought 
to purfue, I returned to my camp. The night 
following we met with little difturbance ; but 
the next day a moll dreadful ftorm of rain 
obliged us to remain clofely Ihut up in our tents; 
and the day after we were tinder the difagree- 
able neceffity of croffing fourteen times fuccef- 
fively the unlucky Kouga, which every quarter 
of an hour Hopped our journey, and above all 
things Ihook my carriages dreadfully upon the 
Hones and fragments of rock which it carried 
along with it In Its courfe. This fatiguing In- 
terruption, fo often repeated, compelled us to 
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