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fent, it only irritated me. I favv 'm my people 
nothing but rebellions fervants ; and my mind 
was fo heated with their murniiirsj that, rufli- 
ing haftily out of my tent, I renewed the 
order for the departure of the women aloud : 
adding, that they who preferred them to me 
might depart with them, as I was no longer 
defirous of their fervice, and fhould know 
where to find and how to punifh them when 
I thought proper. 
The firm tone with which I uttered my 
threat having fuppreiTed their murmurs, and 
produced a deep filence, 1 endeavoured to avail 
myfelf of this fudden impreffion, by trying my 
authority in ifTuing an order of a different kind. 
Two of my goats and a fheep had ftrayed away 
the evening before; and the people whom 
Swanepoel had fent in fearch of them had re- 
turned without finding them. I ordered them 
to be fought for anew : but no one preparing 
to obey the injuncition, I iflued a particular 
command for the purpofe to the perfon neareft 
me. This vv^as a Hottentot, named Adam, who 
ha.d accompanied me in my former journey, 
and who had continued in my fervice, both be- 
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