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iny frlendfliip towards them, and made them 
promifes, I obferved their vengeance kindle 
"up in their coointenancea, and that they 
feemed to place their only hopes of fafety 
in me. They held many conferences, preffed 
clofe one to another, and fufficiently (hewed 
by their geftures the high opinion which 
they had formed of my ftrength, and of my 
lincere defire to ferve them. The name of 
the ferocious inhabitant of Bruyntjes-Hoogte 
was continually in their mouths ; and one 
of them, (haking his head through fpitc and 
rage, told me that, among other vidims, his 
wife ready to lie-in, and two children, had 
been butchered by the hand of this planter; 
and that a thirfl: of blood had hurried him to 
this crime, merely from a pleafure of com- 
mitting it. However (hocking the following 
anecdote may appear, I muft give it a place 
here, in the fame manner in which it was 
told me, and as It has been fince certified tQ 
me more than twenty times. 
At a time when the planters and the Caf- 
fres lived on good terms together, and had 
no reafon to fear or to perfecute each other, 
the tiger of Bruyntjes-FIoogte, who was dif- 
xoncerted by this harmony, and who could 
not 
