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many advances were made me ; and I have no 
doubt but I might have formed, for a few 
pipesful only, an alliance with every family ia 
the horde. I was even preffed fo clofely, as 
to be obliged to employ fome refiftance: but, 
at the fame time, I muft confefs, that my re- 
fufals were given in fuch a way as not to of* 
fend; and they, who in confequence of their 
advances had been expofed to them, having 
foon found other arrangements to make, did 
not fliow me the lefs friendfliip. For my owa 
part, though, from prudential motives, I had 
impofed on myfelf certain laws which I would 
not infringe, I occafionally indulged in jccu- 
lariiy of fpeech. Bernfry had taught me to 
fay in the Nimiqua language, neuycee neuyp 
fnatee ; and every time I repeated this phrafe 
to the young girls, they burft out in a laugh, 
I muft here add, that the girls alone appeared 
to me thus free ; while the married womei\ 
on the contrary were modeft and referved* 
This is a charaderiftic difference, which di-? 
ftingulfhes the Greater NImlquas from the 
Hottentot people in general ; as likewife does 
the low cringelng air they afiume when they 
have any thing to afk. 
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