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t employed, and I remained a week without 
quitting my bed. On the eighth day the 
fwelling was completely gone : but^ though 
I could ftand on my foot, the leg was of a 
greeniih-brown hue ; and more than three 
months elapfed before it refumed its natural 
colour* My people called the plant, after my 
atcident, gifudoorn (poifon-thorn). 
Such was the ftate of my health when I 
purpofed to depart. Every caufe of uneafmeft 
alTailed me at once, and on all fides 1 beheld 
fubjefts of alarm. I had procured by barter 
from Klaas thirty fheep, to form a new flock. 
Defirous that, like my other aoimdsj they 
fliould acquire a habit of not wandering from 
my camp on my journey, I ordered them to 
be kept with my goats near my waggons and 
tents for fome days. But fheep were not the 
cattle of which I had moft need. How cpuld 
I fet out on my expedition with only fevea 
oxen fit for fervice, when I wanted three com* 
plete teams \ 
The horde Was too far difl:ant from any 
fettlement for me to flatter myfelf with buy- 
ing any in the neighbourhood. In reality I 
had depended upon Barter; but he, having 
begun 
