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vent to very cutting and fevere reproaclies, 
and threatened to put the firft of them to 
death who (Iiould dare to dhedi his fteps to- 
wards that quarter in which the planters 
lived, with whom I wiflied them to have no 
communication whatever. As for Slinger, 
1 treated him in a very harfh manner, and 
pofitively forbade him ever to quit his poft 
without my leave. 
The CafFres, who were prefent at this 
fcene, having remarked that I h^d more than 
once alluded to them by my geftures, they 
feemed to be alarmed at the marks of anger 
which were difplayed in my looks, and by the 
confternation that prevailed among my Hot- 
tentots. They readily perceived how much. 
I was incenfed again ft them for what had 
paffed in my camp ; but as they underftood 
lefs of our language than I underftood of 
theirs, they w^ere as much furprifed as uneafy 
at all this noife. By their eyes, which they 
turned firft to one fide and then to another, 
and fixed fometimes on our countenances, 
they expreffed the perplexity and fufpenfe 
with which their minds were agitated. 
Hans, however, took care to explain this 
enigma, and I thought that they then be- 
came 
