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tachment to plunder my camp, and maffacre 
thofe whom I had left to defend it. When I 
reflefted on the numberlefs barbarities com- 
mitted by the wliites, I determined to be on 
my guard againft thefe favages, from whom I 
ihouldhavc had nothing to fear under any other 
circumftances; and on this account alfo I laid 
it down as an eftablifhed rule, which I ob- 
ferved with the utmoft rigour, never to per- 
mit any flranger to enter my camp in the 
night-time. Old Swanepoel took care that 
this regulation fhould be ftriftly follov/ed : 
we always llept feparately, immured in our 
enclofures, and no one was even fuffered to 
go out during the night, as the favages al- 
ways chofe that time to attack the whites, 
who were cafily perceived, and could be feen 
at a diftance, on account of their clothes. As 
my abfence would have been publicly known 
among thefe CafFres, I fhould have been very 
uneafy for the fate of thofe whom I left at 
my camp ; but as I concealed from them the 
precife time of my departure, I thought they 
would conclude, that when I fet out I would 
leave nothing behind me; for I had told them 
that I intended to fend back my carriages to 
the colonics. 
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