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that they were in perfed: harmony with one 
another; and, as they approached nearer, I 
diftingufthed Hafts. I then ordered all the 
arms to be laid afide, and bid my people ap- 
pear as calm and ferene as pofiible. 
I was very impatient to receive my depu- 
ties, and to learn froril their own mouths 
what rifques I could tun for them and myfelf 
without danger, I did not however think 
proper to go to meet them^ or to quit my 
fmall arfenal, until I had heard what thcfe 
travellers had to relate* When the CafFres 
found themfelves within throw of an aflagay, 
they all flopped; and Hans, quitting the troop^ 
came ftraight towards me. In a few words 
he told me, that I was at liberty to purfue 
my journey into Caffraria; that I fhould be 
expofed to no rifque; that I would be re* 
fpedled as a friend ; that the nation he had 
quitted invited me in the moft preffing man-» 
ner not to put off the time any longer, and 
• that they would receive me with pleafure ; 
that I might judge of their general intentions 
by the confidence which they fliewed, and 
by the liberty which feveral of them had 
taken to come and pay me a vifit ; that they 
offered me their friendfhip, and requefted 
M 2 ipine; 
