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animated fcenes, and I regretted that I could 
not prolong their courfe. 
Scarcely had the day begun to appear, when 
I awoke, and werlt to vifit my Gonaquas, who 
were all funk in profound fleep, huddled to- 
gether under their kroffes Narina was w^ith 
her mother lying upon a mat, which I had 
riven her to fecure her from the moifture. 
The other feven women, heaped all together, 
formed a very pleafant group; for neither 
their heads nor their feet were to be feen, as 
they were entirely hid under their covering. 
Having fainted them by difcharglng my fufee 
at their ears, I favvr a number of frightened 
countenances ftart up from below their kroffes, 
which exhibited a moR: comic fcene. Some 
of the fleepers however did not awake, which 
is not at all lurprifmg ; for the fieep of the 
Hottentots is near akin to a lethargy. 
Having left them to recover the ufe of their 
fenfes at ieifure, I went to traverfe the banks 
^ Cloaks made of the fl<:ins of diitereqt animals, which 
the Hottentots all generally ufe, either to clothe them 
during the day, or to cover them in the night-time. I 
fhall have occafion to fpeak of them in a fuller niajmer 
hereafter. 
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