34^ TRAVELS IN 
ger, and thefe difmal ideas at length became 
familiar to me. 
Having ordered my large tent to be ereded 
without the enclofure, and at one of its ex- 
tremities, I caufed it to be furrounded by a few 
falfe huts to deceive the enemy, as we had at- 
tempted at Klyn-Vis-Rivier. At the end of 
the enclofure, oppofite my tent, and in one of 
its angles, we formed a feparate place for my 
horfes, with another for my fheep and goats. 
Near thefe I ereded my fmall tent, in which 
I propofed to fleep; and we raifed the hedge 
of the enclofure fo much with prickly trees, 
that it was impoflible for any ferocious ani- 
mal to leap over it : by thefe means my flocks 
were perfectly fafe in a fpace forty feet fquare, 
which was fufficiently wide and commodious. 
This kind of a fortification might, in cafe of 
neceffity, have even ferved both me and my 
people as a place of retreat, where we could 
have braved two thoufand CafFres. 
Thefe arrangements fatisfied all my com- 
panions, ftill more uneafy than their chief, and 
I faw them gradually refume their former 
gaiety. We did not however neglefl: the 
ufual precautions on the approach of night : 
at 
