AFRICA. 
joy; as If, not contented with the hopes I had 
given them that I would pay them a vifit, 
they entertained no apprelienfion that I would 
be confoun -ed with their deteftable perfecu- 
tors; and as if they had wiflied, from a fin- 
cere love towards me, to proted my perfon 
from every kind of infult. After the ufual 
tabes^ I accompanied them as far as the river, 
which both they and their cattle croffed by 
fwimming; and when they reached the op* 
pofite bank, I faluted them, for the laft time, 
w^ith a general difcharge of all my mufquet- 
ry. They then proceeded on their march, 
and entering the valleys and thickets, foon 
vanifhed from my fight. 
I drew the figures of two of thefe people, 
who, with equal condcfcenfion and aftonifh- 
ment, fufFered me to perform this operation. 
They are here given in the fifth and fixth 
plates. When thefe CafFres had departed, I 
flattered myfelf that my people would make 
fome refleftions on the peaceable manner in 
which they had lived among them; that they 
would be fenfible how ill-founded their fear 
was; and that they would at laft confent to 
accompany me. In order however that I 
might not appear to be anxious on this ac- 
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