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tent-door, when they saluted each other with 
" Good morning" in the Dutch language, a custom 
which is gaining ground among them. 
By showing a little attention to Tattenyana, 
she soon became my friend, and followed me 
wherever I went, taking hold of my coat or hand^ 
At length she ventured to mount the front of my 
waggon while I was reading, and to lay herself 
down on the board which I used for a table. She 
could not conceive why I continued so long 
silently looking at a book, and seemed to think I 
was dull. She then laid herself down on the 
board, using my book for a pillow, and having 
no idea that the intervention of her head would 
impede my reading. Becoming tired of her si- 
tuation, she asked for some snuff, which revived 
her spirits, and she made use of every little 
art to prevail on me to part with two buttons 
for her ears. The manners of this child, resem- 
bling so exactly what one would expect from a 
European child of her age placed in similar cir- 
cumstances, inclined me to describe them thus 
minutely. 
At eight A.M. the two horses were brought back, 
and at nine a.m. news came that the searchers had 
fallen in with an ox that had been torn to pieces 
by lions, which was rather unpleasant information, 
as we had not a spare one to supply its place in 
