AFRICA. Si 
without any care, that he refumed his office 
fix weeks fubfequentto the accident, and never 
experienced afterwards the flighteft pain* 
Our courfe from the Green River had brought 
me nearer to Mount Namero, aud we began 
to find ourfelves approaching the mountains of 
Camis, which majeftically rofe to our view, 
eaftward of the country where Bafter had told 
me I fliould find a fupply of as many oxen as 
I wanted. I was accordingly eager to arrive 
there ; but having met in our way with a 
charming fpring, named Oog-fonty7i (Eye-foun- 
tain), the copious, fweet, and limpid waters 
of which promifed us an agreeable ftation, the 
two brothers, feduced by the coolnefs of the 
place, propofed to me to encamp there ; and, 
notwithftanding my impatience, I complied 
with their wiflies. In the evening, fome Hot- 
tentots of the neighbourhood, coming to fetch 
water from the fpring, were ftruck with the 
extreme fatigue of our oxen, and aflured me, 
that cattle fo jaded would never draw my wag- 
gons to the top of the Namero, which I in- 
tended to crofs. This remark could not fail 
to give me uneafinefs ; and I therefore alked 
them what in this cafe it was beft for me to 
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