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" there were three; but as I did not know thcm^ 
and was alone, I thought it more prudent 
" to come and inforai you, to know how you 
would aa." 
In the extremity to which I was reduced, 
nothing could be more fortunate for me, than 
the news announced by this Flottentot. His 
comrades heard the relation of his difcovery 
with tranfports of joy. They fqueezed his 
hand to thank him ; they carefled him after 
their fafhion, and requefted mc immediately 
to proceed towards the lliepherds. I alfo, In 
my turn, paid him my warmeft acknowledge- 
ments, and praifed his acutenefs, his prudence, 
and his zeal. 
It vvas not enough to have efcaped for the 
moment from the agony of thirft : it was ne- 
ctffary to efcape, as I may fay, from the de- 
fert, by finding fome means of getting out of 
it : and in thefe we could be inftrudled only 
by the Giepherds. Guided by Jantje, we pro- 
ceeded with al icrity towards them : but, not- 
withftanding our general ardour, my Hoiten- 
tots found here and there on their road baits" 
to feduce them from the purfuit, in the pools 
of rain-water which the florm had repofited 
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