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verfe all CafFraria, I would return without 
fail in fifteen days ; but that, if I did not 
appear after fix weeks were elapfed, he might 
decamp and repair to Camdebo, which was 
his own country ; that I left him at liberty 
to purfue this route even before that period, 
if he apprehended that there would be the 
leaft rifk in remaining where he was, and 
that I could eafily find means to join him. 
I begged him to have a watchful eye over 
my people, my carriages, and my colle£lions; 
and, in a word, on the firft appearance of 
danger, to think of putting every thing in a 
place of Ihelter. If, on not feeing me return, 
(added I, with an emotion which I could not 
at that moment conceal), you have reafon to 
defpair of my fafety, you muft make diredly 
for the Cape with all my people, and de- 
liver my effedls to my friend Mr. Boers. 
This worthy old man, on hearing thefe 
laft words, could not help fhedding tears. 
Whilft he was almoft fufFocated by fighs 
and fobbing, I endeavoured to confole him, 
by promifing that I would attempt nothing 
but what was confident with prudence. But it 
would have been in vain for him to attempt 
to 
