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around it. When it was almost dark, our six 
sheep took fright and fled, and all our Hottentots 
and Matchappees hastened after them, but re- 
turned without having been successful. , 
Though the Matchappees had travelled on foot 
about thirty miles, yet at midnight they were 
talking round a fire with as much spirit as if it 
had been mid-day. From the information I re- 
ceived, it seemed probable that all of them had 
committed atrocious deeds to obtain cattle, and 
that they felt, like Cain, as if an avenger was 
at hand. On a journey, therefore, they are 
afraid to sleep till daylight approaches. It is a 
fact that they were more afraid of the different 
nations to which we were going than ourselves. 
Nor perhaps were their fears, on the present oc- 
casion, altogether groundless, as our waggons and 
oxen were likely to excite the covetousness of 
savages. Indeed it is always the safest method 
for a person to travel in uncivilized countries 
with nothing more than Jie can carry about him. 
16th. At daylight we recovered the strayed 
sheep, but found that our two horses and three 
of the oxen were missing, and some of the 
people were gone in search of them, 
Tattenyana, daughter to Pelangye, the Old 
Lattakoo captain, though only seven years of age, 
instantly on my getting out of the waggon came 
