f74 TRAVELS llSf 
tvhile my heart fwelled with affedlonate gm« 
titude, I a thoufand and a thoufand times em-* 
braced the kind family, who till that moment 
had continued to load me with marks of friend- 
fhip and care, and from whom I thought my- 
felf about to be feparated for ever. When ori 
the very point of quitting them, the young men 
©f the neighbourhood prefented themfelves to 
take leave of me, and to affift at my departure. 
Such is the etiquette of the country, when the 
inhabitants wifh to teftify their rcfpefl for thofe 
■t^^hom they efteem. The whole troop faluted 
me with a difcharge of mufketry ; and I, who 
expeited fuch a teftimony of politenefs, re- 
turned it by another from my Hottentots, 
"When I mounted my horfe, thefe young peo- 
ple accompanied me on horfeback alfo to the 
diftance of above a league. At length, being 
obliged to feparate, and having mutually 
fhaken hands, I was again faluted by a gene- 
lal difcharge, to which I replied by firing my 
own piece, and caufing my people to fire theirs. 
To fpeak the truth, I regretted the lofs of my 
gun^powder wafted in this manner to no pur- 
pofe ; but cuftom required this facrifice, and I 
could not avoid it without a breach of polite- 
nefs, 
