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pofiible that they had met with Pinar, and thai 
he had been induced by fear or avarice to give 
them fome in exchange for cattle. 
While reafoning on out* conjedures as we 
walked, we perceived the two hunters. They 
were Pinar himftlf, and a man whom I took 
for a Hottentot Eafter, but w^ho, as Schoen=^ 
jnaker told me, was Bernfry, 
The fight of the two lions, whofe footftcps 
^e had perceived the preceding evening, would 
not have infpired us with more horror ; and 
that of Bernfry was particularly difpleafing to 
Schoenmaker, whp had been his neighbour on 
the banks of the Green- River, and had been 
compelled, by his daily quarrels with him, to 
quit the place, and fettle where I found him. 
The two hunters had perceived us, and 
cauie tow^ards us. Schoenmaker, w^armed with 
refentment at the fight of his enemy, yet 
obliged to reftrain itj had only time to fay to 
in a \o\j voice : " Be upon your guard, 
|he villain will play you fome trick." 
Pinar accofted me in order to inform me, that 
Jialf ^ league farther on I fhould find a good 
plgc^ for encamping with my people and cat- 
tle | and he offered to cpudud me thither. This 
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