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agalnfl: them, Aould I obferve them make the 
leafl: attempt to dlfturb the repofe of the 
planters. I coiialudecl by obferving, that I 
was fufficiently acquauited with the condud: 
of both, to be convinced that thefe favages, 
who breathed nothing but peace and tran- 
quillity, would never be the firft to give the 
fignal for committing hoftilities. 
After this difcourfe, which was rather 
fharp, I ordered thefe four baftard Hottentots 
inftantly to quit my camp, and made four of 
my fufileers accompany them until they 
fhould be out of my fight. I warned them, 
that if ever they fhould think proper to return, 
whatever might be their pretext, I would 
purfue them as I would do wild hearts ; and 
every other peribn who might appear with the 
like intentions, as thofe which had brought 
them. This laft threat feemed to make a 
confiderable impreffion on my Hottentots ; 
who, on hearing the noile, had aiTembled 
around my tent. When it came to their 
turn to be interrogated rcfpedllng the fecret 
abode of thefe fpies, whom, they had har- 
boured in fo criminal a manner in my camp, 
not one of them ventured to utter a fingle 
word in hi^^ ov/n defence. 1 therefore gave 
vent 
