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tinguished. Next day at low water, they found shell-fish as 
usual, staid some time to dry their clothes, and then resumed 
their journey. Coming to a large village, the inhabitants fell 
upon them with such fury that several of them were wound- 
ed, in consequence of which one man died soon afterward. 
Hynes received a wound in his leg from a lance, and bemg 
knocked down, was left senseless on the spot by his compa- 
nions, who supposed him dead. However, in a few hours, to 
their great joy, he rejoined his countrymen, who had despair- 
ed of ever seeing him .again. 
From this time they lost sight of the habitations of the na- 
tives, and entered a sandy desert, where it was with the ut- 
most difficulty they could procure any subsistence. At inter- 
vals, indeed, they experienced the usual bounty of the sea, 
and having collected as many shell-fish as possible, they open- 
ed them in the fire, and taking out the animal, left the shell, 
which greatly diminished the labor of carriage. 
Having passed the desert, they arrived at a large river, 
which, as they afterward learned from the Dutch, is called 
Bosje?man's river. Here they found Thomas Lewis, one or 
the party which had gone before them, who having been ta- 
ken ill, was abandoned to his fate. He informed them that he 
had traveled inland and seen many huts, at one of which he 
obtained a little milk, and at another was beaten away. He 
added, that having reached the place where he now was, he 
found himself too weak to cross the river, and was, therefore, 
determined to return to the nearest kraal, indifferent as to his 
reception or his life. In vain his companions strove to over- 
come this determination. They flattered him with the hope of 
yet being able to reach the Cape, but their encouragement 
was ineffectual. Both his body and mind were broken down ; 
he had drained the cup of affliction to the dregs ; despair had 
laid her iron hand upon him, and sealed him for her own. In 
spite of all their entreaties he went back to the natives, and 
once more had the good fortune to receive assistance when he 
eould least of all expect it, and in such a shape as proved ef- 
fectual to his preservation. But we are anticipating events. 
On exploring the sea-coast, our people, to their great joy, 
discovered another whale, and having cut the flesh into junks, 
took with them as much of it as they were able to carry. 
Again losing sight of the natives and their huts, they were 
kept in continual alarm by the wild beasts, which were here 
more numerous than in any part of the country through which 
they had hitherto passed, 
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