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Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa

CHAPTER 3
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Thinking it to be a lion, he galloped up to her.

She thought herself captured, and began to deliver up her poor little property, consisting of a few traps made of cords; but, when I explained that we only wanted water, and would pay her if she led us to it, she consented to conduct us to a spring.

It was then late in the afternoon, but she walked briskly before our horses for eight miles, and showed us the water of Nchokotsa.

After leading us to the water, she wished to go away home, if indeed she had any--she had fled from a party of her countrymen, and was now living far from all others with her husband--but as it was now dark, we wished her to remain.

As she believed herself still a captive, we thought she might slip away by night; so, in order that she should not go away with the impression that we were dishonest, we gave her a piece of meat and a good large bunch of beads; at the sight of the latter she burst into a merry laugh, and remained without suspicion.
At Nchokotsa we came upon the first of a great number of salt-pans, covered with an efflorescence of lime, probably the nitrate.


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