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journey, and fliould find, either among the Ni- 
m:quas or in the Caminouqua horde, new com- 
panions, who would take pleafure in entering 
into my fervice, or at leaft affift me in finding 
an efcort from horde to horde. 
Thefe new companions would have been 
unqueftionably more ufeful and lefs expen- 
five than the indolent race of Hottentots ; who, 
as I have already faid, are good only in the 
colony, and have no notion of being fervice- 
able any longer than while they have plenty of 
tobacco, brandy, and fat. In my rage, I had 
even given them leave to quit me ; and I 
would have fent them off as they deferved, 
without allowing them to return, had I 
been able to forefee that, on continuing my 
journey, I fhould meet with a warlike, inde- 
fatiga' le, adive, induftrious, fober nation, 
compofed of men fit to afiift me in the bold 
enterprife I had formed, and enable me to 
furmount the difficulties of every kind that 
awaited me. 
I became acquainted with this privileged 
race of beings, worthy of contributing to the 
fuccefs of an African journey, too late for my 
advantage. Fortune, it is true, has appeared 
fome- 
