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the morning dawned, I rose with the rest of the company, in per- 
fect health. 
We now found that our sociable friend from the round kraal 
had followed the waggons, and arrived with our Hottentots, after we 
had retired to rest. He had thus gained a good deal of amuse- 
ment, and, we hope, some useful information and instruction, be- 
sides partaking of their supper and breakfast. We were at least 
six miles from his hermitage, and our arrival was to him, no doubt, 
an event of much importance. 
25th. The boor, who brought us thus far, had behaved with so 
much reserve, and had such a forbidding countenance, that we 
had set him down for a very sulky fellow ; but we now found our- 
selves so much at his mercy in this wilderness, where we might 
have waited long enough for a relay of oxen, that we resolved to 
try his temper, and whether he had good nature enough left, to a- 
gree to put us forward another " skoff " or day's journey. Brother 
Schmitt conducted the negotiation, and having represented our 
case, found him much more pliable than expected ; and surely one 
ought not always to judge of a man's heart by the cut of his face. 
After some silent consultation with his own feelings, he observed, 
that he could not be satisfied, to leave us in this desert, but though 
his oxen were tired, he would bring us to Klip Revier, on Kier- 
booms Hevier, being the first farm in the Lange Kloof. For 
this exertion of good-will, he was treated v/ith coffee and brandy, 
and at the end of the journey, with a good meal, and a Gnaden- 
thal knife. 
We set out after breakfast, and walked along a steep, broken 
ridge of barren hills, while the waggons took the road lower down. 
Wild boars having been seen this morning on a neighbouring hill, 
Marcus was sent with a rifle gun to try to get some venison, but 
returned without having discovered their retreat. In fact, we 
could not spare any of our people, as every assistance was v/anted 
to keep the waggons from oversetting. We had now arrived among 
kloofs and low hills, each of v. liich, liowever, would have obtained 
