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had brought with me from India pots, kettles, and 

 camp furniture, together with my tent, and an ample 

 stock of gunpowder ; and a Parsee servant, named 

 Nesserwanjee Motabhoy, who had accompanied my 

 friend Richardson, declared his determination of fol- 

 lowing our fortunes. 



By Dr. Smith's kind advice, we ordered from a 

 tailor in Cape Town, as a present, amongst others, 

 to the redoubted Chief Moselekatse, called by some 

 Umsiligas, whom we proposed to visit, a great coat, 

 in itself so perfectly unique that I may be excused 

 for describinof it. Of dimensions suited to the fiffure 

 of a portly gentleman, pointed out by the Doctor, 

 as resembling the Chief, it was composed of drab 

 duffel, a coarse shaggy cloth commonly worn by 

 the colonists, surmounted by six capes, and provided 

 with huge bone buttons, and a ponderous brazen 

 clasp in the shape of a crest, the whole being lined 

 and fancifully trimmed with scarlet shalloon in a 

 manner calculated to captivate the taste, and pro- 

 pitiate the esteem, of the most despotic and capricious 

 of savages. 



With this curious investment we embarked on the 

 2nd July in a small schooner bound for Algoa Bay, 

 one of our fellow-passengers from India accompany- 

 ing us to the pier, unable to persuade himself, until 

 the boat had fairly pushed off", that we really in- 

 tended to venture upon a second voyage in such a 

 craft so immediately after the troubles we had un- 

 dergone. In addition to a mate, a cook, and a Mo- 

 zambique negro, dignified with the appellation of 



