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fooii obtained two or three quarts of muddy and 
brackifli water ; and to render It drinkable, I 
threw mto it a few ounces of ground coffee, as 
I had done into that of Krakkeel-klip. I had 
intended alfo to boll it as in that inftance ; but 
my people were fo feverely tortured with thirft, 
that none of them could confent to wait this 
procefs. i\ccordmgly I was obliged to ferve 
out this fort of liquid mud ; and, like an im- 
partial parent, 1 divided it, as w^as my cuftom, 
equally among all, fo that a very fmall portion 
fell to the ihare of each. 
"We were at this time at the foot of a fmall 
chain of mountains, which ran from north to 
fouth, and, going oft from the great chain 
which we had to the eaft of us, formed a defile, 
of which it w^as impoflible for the eye to take 
in the whole extent. 
Cattle had evidently remained here fome 
time. The trodden earth every where exhi- 
bited the print of their feet. Not doubting, 
therefore, but I fhould foon find fome Hotten- 
tot horde, that could inform me refpeding the 
tribe of Bafter, which Colonel Gordon had 
mentioned to me, I refolved to proceed along 
the defile, as the road to fuch difcovery. 
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