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Black-Thorn river (Swarte-Doorn RivterJ^ 
where we encamped on the third day at noon. 
This was bordered with very large mimofas all 
along its courfe. 
Having, while the cattle wef"e HfthafnefEng, 
proceeded forwards to examine the place, I 
faw, with equal 'foy and furprife, a waggon 
guarded by fome Hottentots. I aceofted, and 
put fevt^ral queftions to thefe men refpeding 
the motives that brought them thither. But 
iny joy was foon converted into uneafineft, 
w^hen they informed me, that the waggon be- 
longed to Piet Pinar, who had taken them into 
his fervice, and with whom they were juft ar- 
rived. Pinar was the great hunter, the famous 
ranger of woods, of whom I have before 
fpoken, and who is mentioned in Paterfon^s 
work. He had travelled with Colonel Gordon, 
and at the moment of my departure from the 
Cape, he had come and offered to accompany 
me alfo : but his charafter had mduced me to 
refufe him, for the reafons I have elfewhere 
given, and it was with real forrdw I now met 
him on my way. 
However, he rendered me one kind of fer- 
vice* As he gave out at the Cape, that he 
wa^ 
