24 TRAVELS IN 
long catalogue of my wants, and ventured 
boldly to demand of them, in the Colonel's 
name, all that he might have aiked himfelf, had 
he known my fituation. 
The weight of this powerful recomrnenda- 
tlon I endeavoured to augment by other ar- 
guments, in the courfe of converfation. As 
we proceeded towards the kraal, I related to 
the two brothers all the difafters we had expe- 
rienced fince our departure from the Elephants- 
River ; the defpair to which we had been re- 
duced for want of water, when the ftorm came 
to relieve us ; and the whole feries of unfor- 
tunate adv^entures, v^hich had obliged me to 
abandon my three waggons, and to leave my 
people and baggage difperfed upon the road. I 
appeared as if greatly agitated, while I related 
all the obftacles that I found arifing at every 
ftep : and I was really much affefted ; for a 
fecret prefentiment told me, that thefe obftacles 
would fome day be multiplied to a degree 
that it would be impofTible for me to overcome 
them. 
My misfortunes feemed to intereft the two 
brothers. They had liftened to the narrative 
with attention, and without interrupting me : 
but 
