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m far as the fea, might therefore juftly alarm 
men deftitute of lirmnefs and intrepidity 
but at this time I coiild fee nothing in their 
refufal except obftinacy and difobedience, 
and a certain fpirit of diforder, which in- 
fpired them with a dilllke for the tedioufnefs 
and fatigue of fo long a journey. Other 
caufes, which I did not then know, and 
which I difcovered too late, contributed alfo 
to the fame end. 
Being, however, determined to follow my 
own plan, and wiftiing to be accompanied 
only by people who had never dared to fhew 
the leaft figns of difobedience, w^ho could 
boaft of having fubjeded obiliacles to my 
pleafure, and who had never didated to their 
chief, as maxims of prudence, what were 
only the precautions of their fear and pufiila- 
nimity, I tormented my imagination, if I 
may fo exprefs it, and made a thoufand ef- 
forts to devife fome means of extricating 
myfelf from my difagreeable fituation. 
I depended upon Klaas as on myfelf, and 
I was equally fure of old Swanepoel and my 
hunter Zean, who had followed me from 
Milk-Valley, and who killed for me the 
iirft tzeiran or blue antelope: Pit and Adam 
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