AFRICA. ^^ 
preceding one, a number of hands would be 
neceflary. 
The time requifite for this journey would 
oblige me to pafs fome days at the kraal ; and 
it was poffible, that I might be under the ne- 
ceffity of prolonging my ftay, fmce I could not 
avoid giving my caravan, my horfes, and even 
my oxen, if any remained alive, fufEcient reft 
to enable them to recover from their fatigue. 
In this compulfory ftate of inaction, I had no 
refource but the chace. Accordingly I em- 
ployed the two following days in hunting in 
the, mountains with my hoft and my guide. 
But the evening of the fecond day I experi- 
enced an agreeable furprife, when, as I ap- 
proached the kraal, I perceived my flag waving 
near the hut which had been erefted for me ; 
my waggon and people having arrived in the 
courfe of the day. At this fight an involuntary 
exclamation of joy efcaped me ; and hope, 
which had long been baniflied from my breaft, 
entered it for the firft time. I even found 
thirteen oxen and both my horfes alive ; but 
thefe were all the animals, except my goats, 
which had furvived. 
For the reft, the chace in thefe mountains 
promifed 
