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came much more compofed 5 but when he 
informed them that the planters had taken 
Ihelter fb near us, they were plunged into 
the utmoft diflrefs. They imaguied that, 
being informed by the four fpies, whom I 
had difmiffed, of their abode with me, thefe 
trqacherous and vlndl£llve white men would 
immediately haften to attack them, and to 
deftroy them even in my camp. In vain did 
I endeavour to allay their fears, by afiuring 
them that they were perfedly fafe, and that 
I would fupport and protedt them. I no 
longer beheld in them that open and fincere 
joy which proceeds from tranquillity of rnind. 
They conferred much more than ufual with 
one another, and appeared as if they were 
concerting meafures together, and wllhed 
only to depart, in order that they might fly 
from the danger that threatened them. Hans, 
who had accompanied them that evening 
when they retired to their kraal, confelTed to 
me next morning, that they fufpedled him 
to be a traitor who had enticed them to me 
to be butchered, and that, confequently, I 
myfelf was not free from fufpiclon ; that 
they remembered one of thefe four baftard 
whites to have often vifited their country, un- 
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