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woman in the whole party had a fingle flieep's fkin thrown 
over her fhoulders, which was very induftrioufly pointed out 
by the farmers as a proof of their having fiifFered from this 
horde. 
Before the men were fent away from the waggons a large 
prefent was made to each of tobacco, beads, knives, flints, and 
fteels ; and they were defired to tell all their countrymen they 
fhould happen to fee, that v/henever they fhould defift from 
ftealing the cattle of the colonics, and fhould come to any of 
the farm-houfes without bow and arrows, or other weapons, 
and fay they were in want, as many or more fheep fhould be 
given to them than they could poffibly obtain by plunder : that 
our prefent journey into their country was for no other inten- 
tion than to give them an opportunity of putting a final ftop to 
all expeditions againft them, if, by a change of condudt, they 
were inclined to avail themfelves of it ; and they were aifured 
that not a fmgle fliot would have been fired upon their horde 
had they not firft difcharged their arrows upon the farmers. 
Having remained with us very contentedly for a few days, 
they returned to their kraal highly pleafed with the treatment 
they had met with, and with the prefents they had received. 
The horde or kraal confifted of five-and-twenty huts, each 
made of a fmall grafs-mat bent into a femicircle, and faftened 
down between two fticks ; open before, but clofed behind with 
a fecond mat. They were about three feet high and four feet 
wide, and the ground in the middle was dug out like the neft 
of an oftrich ; a little grafs ftrewed in this hollow fei ved as 
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