At length, one morning, we fell in with a party of natives. They
were of the Karroo tribe, as they told us by pointing to themselves,
and saying, `Karroos', and then they pointed to us, and said `Dutch'.
We shot game, and gave it to them, which pleased them very much, and
they remained with us for five or six days. We tried by signs to
inquire of them, if there were any Dutch settlement about there; and
they understood us, and said that there was, in a direction which they
pointed out to us, to the north-east. We offered them a present if they
would show us the way. Two of the men agreed to go with us; the rest of
the tribe, with the women and children, went southward. The next day we
arrived at a Dutch settlement of three or four farmhouses, called
Graaff Reinet; but I must leave off now, for it is past bed-time."
Chapter XXXVIII
The construction of the fish-pond proceeded rapidly, and on the third
day it was nearly complete. As soon as all the walls were finished,
Ready threw out sand and shingle, so as to make the part next to the
beach nearly as deep as the other; so that there might be sufficient
water to prevent the gulls and man-of-war birds from darting down, and
striking the fish.
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