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we might notbefo inconvenienced again, I di- 
reded them to be killed, and diflributed them, 
with a few pieces of the hippopotami, among 
the people of the horde. This prefent v/as 
the more valuable to them, as they had no, 
other food than the milk of a few cows. On 
quitting them, I had the happinefs of adding 
to it five fpring-bock antelopes, which I killed 
on a hill about a mile from the kraal, and im- 
mediately fent to them. 
I could not witnefs the joy this new gift 
muft have produced : but, if I may judge from 
that occafioned by the former, and the endlefs 
thanks made me by thofe of the horde who ac- 
companied me as guides, my vifit to thefe 
diftreffed creatures muft have formed an era 
which they would not foon forget, and the 
miracles of the great purveyor will be handed 
down in the horde from generation to gene- 
ration. 
On my arrival at Gamma-Rhier (Lion- 
River), I found it to contain fo little water, 
that we chofe its bed for our road. The loofe 
fand with which it was covered was tirefome, 
it is true ; but the buihy trees on Its banks com- 
penfated for our fatigue, by the fhelter they 
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