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• received it very improperly ; for his reputation > 
which gave a colour of probability to every 
accufatioii made againft him, hurt him very 
. ' much in my opinion, and rendered me unjuft, 
efpecially when I was in bad humour. Seve- 
ral petty thefts, which a fondnefs for dainties 
caufed my Hottentots to commit, were often 
. laid upon him ; and on this account poor Kees 
was many times blamed without caufe. 
The river Sondag has its fource in high ^ 
mountains, which are almoft always covered 
with fnow ; on which accQunt they are named 
Snow-Bergen^ or the mountains of fnow. I 
faw them on my left towards the north This 
river, enlarged by various fmall ftreams which 
run into it, difcharges itfelf into the fea at 
the diftance of ten leagues from the place 
where I then w^as. 
On the I ft of Odober we purfued our route 
in the ufual order. After travelling feven 
hours, we repofed ourfelves for a moment 
under the ruins of a habitation deferted like 
the former, and no lefs difmal and melancho- 
ly. At four in the afternoon we halted at a 
lake ; and it was very fortunate for us thai we 
had two large fires that night, as two lions 
and fome hyenas paid us a vifit, which threw 
our 
