300 TRAVELS IN 
without hurting me, and without depriving 
myfelf of thofe refources which were neceffary 
for my return. Tobacco above all was dlftrl- 
buted with great profufion among thefe wor- 
thy favages and I referved only as much as 
might be fufficient to fupply my people till 
we reached the Cape. 
After this I took the venerableHaabasafide, 
and preffed hlni in an afFe£lionate manner, and 
even with emotion, to follow the advice which 
1 had given him refpedting his own preferva- 
tion, and that of his whole horde. I endea- 
voured to perfuade him that the apparent 
tranquillity of the planters, always affembled 
in the fame place, feemed to forebode fome 
new proje(fl, and confequently new acls of 
treachery; and that his kraal being fituated 
juft between the planters and the CafFres, he 
might foon or late become a vidlim either to 
the one or the other. 
He promifed that he would remove to a 
proper diftance as foon as I had departed; 
telling me that he had not formed this refo- 
lution fooner, as he wifhed to have the plea- 
fure of feeing me again on my return from 
CafFraria : but he added, with that aftedion 
and love of which he had given me fo many 
proofs.. 
