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difpel from their minds every doubt, and to 
prove that I did not a£l raflily, I declared 
that I had no intention of penetrating far 
into CafFrarla, unlefs I met with no obftacles, 
and experienced no kind of difcontent on 
their part 5 that as, from the accounts of my 
envoys, I could not hope to find king Faroo 
eafily, I propofed only to pay a vifit to the 
CafFres, who waited for me with impatience, 
and then to turn off towards the eaft, in order 
to get near the coaft, where we might per- 
haps difcover the velfel that had been fhip- 
wrecked. Finding that they all adhered to 
the promife which they had made me, I ad- 
dreffed Swanepoel ; and telling him that I 
confidered him as another felf, and inverted 
him with the whole of my authority during 
my abfence, I conjured him to watch over 
my camp, and preferve good order in it^ as I 
could not depend on the reft. 
My three Gonaquas having arrived on the 
day appointed, nothing remained but to pre- 
pare ourfelves, and to lay in provifions ne- 
ceffary for our journey. I filled two leather 
bags with gunpowder, which I enclofed in 
a third, to preferve them from moifture ; and 
we caft balls of different fizes, made a con- 
fiderable 
