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cover. A coward^ a mutineer^ and an inveterate liar^ it 

 will be seen that Andries caused more mischief and trouble 

 to us by his pernicious example and rebellious conduct when 

 beyond the reach of the law^ than can be well conceived by 

 those who have never had the misfortune to be exposed to 

 the machinations of so dang'erous a ruffian. 



Wherever we were likely to obtain recruits to join our 

 expedition^ we hoisted our standard^ in the hope and ex- 

 pectation that numbers would flock around it. But whilst 

 some had married wives^ and others had purchased farms, 

 we saw too plainly written in the countenances of all, that 

 they felt convinced of the impossibility of two poor Indian 

 g'entlemen, who had only been three weeks in the colony, 

 achieving", alone and unassisted, among-st savag-e nations 

 in South Africa, a long- and perilous journey, which had 

 never been undertaken except by a few persons whose 

 experience of the country mig'ht be traced back almost to 

 their cradles, and even by them had been accomphshed 

 with g-reat difficulty and hazard. 



