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li'ope of regaining this makes gamblers ; and I 
had then no ne«d of proclamations to prevent 
in future fuch diforder in my camp. 
Several Nimiquas had accompanied me 
from the former horde to this ; they appeared 
even to take pleafure in being with me ; but, 
the moment my people were prohibited from 
playing with them, they no longer found my 
camp fo agreeable, and cam.e to announce to 
ine their departure, 
Neverthelefs, as they had every reafon to be 
fatisfied with my conduct towards them, they 
exprelTed, on quitting me, great friendfhip and 
attachment ; and, as I had juft purchafed fome 
oxen for my waggons, they even offered to 
take them under their care, and deliv^er them 
to Swanepoel at my camp on the Orange- 
River. This offer I accepted. In return, I 
made them a few prefents ; I entl"ufted them 
with my cattle, after having marked them ; 
and they went away fatisfied. 
Scarcely had they quitted me, when one of 
my Hottentots came to alk a favour of me. 
He was defirous of making one of the Nimi- 
quas of the horde a prefent of a fine cow. 
He had already fomething towards paying for 
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