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gourap (the white crow). The mountains 
afforded me a few charming plants, of which I 
made drawings, and among others two beau- 
tiful lilies with a fmgle corolla, one of a crlm- 
fon, the other of a lemon colour. 
Schoenmaker, having completed his prepa- 
rations, and IfTued his orders before his de- 
parture, direded all his oxen to be yoked to 
my waggons, and we fet off without delay, 
after having left a few pounds of powder with 
his horde, to defend it agalnft the Bofhmcn, If 
they fhould attack it In his abfence. In lefs 
than five hours w^e came in fight of a horde of 
the lefs Nimiquas : and, as my caravan might 
occafion an alarm, Schoenmaker advanced be-* 
fore us to Inform them who we were. This 
was the largeft horde I had yet met with, 
having not lefs than fifty or fixty huts, fepa- 
rated into three divifions. At our approach, 
all the inhabitants affembled together. I had 
never before feen fo many favages in a body; 
fo that it was a fight to me fomewhat ftriking 
and awful. Curiofity prompted them all to 
advance. I was furrounded by them. Everj^ 
one wanted to fee and come near me. All 
fpoke at once ; fo that I heard nothing but a 
coa- 
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