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had that whimfical elongation, of which I have 
given a plate and defcription in my former 
travels, Klaas Bafter affured me I fliould find 
the fame fingularity in every Nimiqua horde. 
I v^as defirous of afcertaining whether there 
were any difference between the one in quef- 
tion, and that which I faw in another part of 
Africa : but, though I might eafily have ob- 
tained much more, they refufed to fatisfy me in 
this trifling point. Perfuaded, from the unani- 
mous declarations of all my people, that I 
fliould really fee nothing new, I refpeded 
their modefty, and fufiered my curiofity to 
reft fatisfied. 
The country is not fruitful : its fterility 
frequently obliges the inhabitants to change 
their refidence ; fo that they are the moft 
wandering people in all this part of Africa. 
At the Cape and in the colony, this country 
is fuppofed to have gold mines, but without 
any proof. Some day, perhaps, the Company 
will attempt to afcertain the truth of it, by 
fending thither able mineralogifts. For my 
own part I muft fay, that I no where difco- 
vered, among any of the hordes, the leaft trace 
or indication of this inhuman metal. 
It 
