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earth, the silver was found, at sight of which they 

 rejoiced greatly, feasting and making merry ; and 

 because it was almost night the cafre said he would 

 fain go back to his house, and though, as all might 

 see, the mines of silver were already discovered, 

 yet on the morrow he would come again. The 

 Governor agreed, but never again did that man 

 return. The day after, seeing that the cafre came 

 not back as he had promised, the Governor com- 

 manded to dig in the same place where the night 

 before the silver had been laid bare, and in all 

 the surrounding region, but no sign of silver did 

 they see. 



" Then was the native's deception manifest. So 

 seeing no way of finding the mines, and that all 

 the inhabitants had fled with their suppUes, Barreto 

 turned his face towards Sena, leaving 200 soldiers 

 with their captain, named Antonio Cardoso 

 d'Almeida, provisioned and armed in a stockade 

 of timber to take heed with caution of the cafres 

 around, and find, if they could, the silver he 

 coveted. 



" In this place stayed the soldiers some months 

 without success, and almost without food, which 

 latter they were soon constrained to provide by 

 force of arms. 



" Hereupon the cafres, seeing they could not 

 live in security and quiet with the Portuguese as 

 their neighbours and foes, feigned to make peace 

 with them, and communicate amicably with them, 

 to gain their friendship that they might the more 

 assuredly slay them by stealth. Thus passed some 

 time in this pretended harmony, when at length 



