AFRICA, 333 
we proceeded along the banks of the river; 
but, overcome by fatigue, we were forced to 
halt, at the diftance of three hundred paces 
from its current : it was then only four in the 
afternoon. Whilft we were making the ufual 
preparations to enable us to pafs the night in 
tranquillity, I walked towards the banks of 
the river; not far from which I perceived the 
remains of a kraal belonging to the CafFres. 
Curiofity having induced me to go up to it, 
I found feveral huts perfedlly entire, and 
others wholly deftroyed : but I beheld a more 
difmal fpeftacle in fome human bones which 
lay fcattered here and there. From their ap- 
parent age, I concluded that they were the relics 
of thofe unfortunate wretches whom the plan- 
ters had made the firft viflims of their revenge; 
and that they had been left there fmce the 
commencement of this unjuft war. 
We pafTed the night of the loth without 
any interruption. Some hysenas, indeed, paid 
us a vifit; but being accuftomed to fuch guefts, 
we were under very little uneafmefs. In the 
morning, my Hottentots, on their return from 
procuring water, informed me that they had 
feen feveral frefh traces of koedoes^ and hip- 
* The antlkpe oryx oC Pallas. T. 
popotami. 
