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caufe of difcontent to the very moment when, 
being returned to the Cape, they quitted me, 
to follow their hufbands to the new horde of 
which they were about to become a part. 
The na re of the Nimiquas is much cele- 
brated in the Dutch colonies j but little be- 
fide the name is knovv^n of them there. With 
refpe£t to their country, it is fuppofed, I 
know not why, to abound in mines of gold and 
filver. AfTuredly I was not led thither by the 
thirft of wealth. Though it appeared to me 
the moft parched and defolate of all the coun- 
tries of Africa that I vifited, I was not the lefs 
defirous of completely traverfing it, becaufe I 
wifhed to know both the nations by which 
it Was inhabited, and the produdlons it con- 
tfiined. 
The eagernefs with which I was obferved 
to feek and catch infe(9:s, which are very plen- 
tiful in the country, had engaged feveral per- 
fons of the horde in contributing to my col- 
ledlion, A woman, who had made hedelf of 
the party, brought me a fuperb beetle, which I 
believe is to be found in no cabinet in Europe, 
at leaft it is not in any one that I have feen. 
While I was examining this beautiful infe(3: 
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