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duty enfued. Nothing was attended to pro- 
perly ; and the want of fubordination was be- 
come fo general, th .t, to cut the evil to the 
quick, I fet about pronouncing as many di- 
vor es as there had been marriages, and fend- 
ing av^ay all thefe Hottentot ladies without 
exception. 
Such a fevere Injundtion could not fail to be 
dlfpleafing to idle fellows, who had no employ 
but to divert themfelves, and to whom I an- 
nounced the fatigues of a new journey. Moft 
of them murmured loudly; and complained, 
that, after I had been three months leading 
them through horrible countries, I intended to 
condudt them to others perhaps ftill more de- 
folate and dangerous. The fight of the wo- 
men whom they were to quit added to their 
difcontent ; till at length it rofe to fuch a 
height, that Klaas entered my tent to inform 
me, that, if I did not prevent an infurredion 
by revoking my order, I fhould run the hazard 
of finding myfelf alone the next day with him 
and Swanepoel, as all the reft were already 
preparing to depart with their miftrefTes. 
In any other fituation, fuch an account would 
have led me to ferious refledions : in the pre- 
fentj 
