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a ful)je£l of very ferlous alarm to his fmall 
company. 
My caravan being aflembled required of me 
frelh cares, affiduous attentionj and of courfe a 
more fedentary life. It is true, the chain of 
mountains not abounding with animals, a few 
d^ys were fufficient to procure me every ad- 
dition I could make to my colledlion j fo that 
I hunted only by way of varying my occupa- 
tions, or avoiding idlenefs ; and very foon an 
event, w^hich I was far from fufpedling, obliged 
me to give it up entirely. 
One day as I was ranging the valleys with 
my gun, I faw at a diftance a female mulatto, 
who, mounted on an ox, which fhe managed 
gracefully, appeared to be proceeding to the 
kraal. She was dreffed in the Hottentot 
mode, and was conduded by a man, who I 
knew belonged to the horde of Klaas Bafter. 
As foon as her guide perceived me, he pointed 
me out to her, and ihe immediately put her 
animal upon the trot to overtake me. Accoft- 
ing me in Dutch, flie alighted, and requefted 
me to accompany her to the kraal. It was a 
fifter of my hoft, yet unmarried, and living In 
a diftant horde. On the d^y of my arrival, he 
had 
