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people, I meant to give up the whole of the 
two animals to the kraaL The chief, as a 
teftimony of their gratitude, requefted me, ia 
the name of the whole^ to accept a fat ox. 
I thanked him for his offer; but, finding 
him mortified by my refufal, 1 begged him to 
give me iti exchange a coui)le of iheep ; as at a 
time of fcarcity they might lerve us for food 
on our journey. Before 1 left him^ I made 
him a prefent of a knife, and diftributed a few 
glafs beads among the women. 
To arrive at the canton where I was in- 
formed I ihould certainly find giraffes, I mufl 
pafs another horde, a few leagues diflanc from 
this. I therefore requefled him to furnifh me 
with guides to it, and particularly to fend fome 
of his people to announce my coming. This 
Was always my cuftom : when I quitted a horde 
1 procured a recommendation to that to which 
I was going ; and I had always reafon to re- 
joice at having done fo. As favages have but 
few means of proteding themfelvcs againft 
the rapacity of the curious or ill-intentioned, 
when they receive vifits fimilar to thoie of a 
Pinar, and as I wifhed never to infpire fear, the 
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