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brance of them. Confiding in my adieus^ my 
regret, and my tears, you have perhaps long 
expe£i:ed me in your calamities ; your de- 
ceived limpiicity has perhaps brought you 
back more than once to thofe happy fpots 
which were the fcenes of our meetings and 
of our feftivals ; you have in vain fought for 
me in vain have you called me to affift you : 
I could neither comfort nor defend you, im- 
menfe tracts of country feparate us for ever. 
But think no more of me. May no foolifli 
hope difturb the tranquillity of your mo- 
ments ; fuch an idea w^ould embitter all my 
days. I have again fubmitted to the chains 
of fociety ; I (hall die like fo many others, 
borne down by an enormous load ; but I can 
at leaft fay, with my lateft breath, my 
*^ name is already effaced from the remem- 
brance of my friends, while the traces of 
** my feet ftill remain vifible among the Go- 
*^ naquas." 
From the information I received, I con- 
cluded that we fhould find the fnow-moun- 
tains to the eaft ; and that by leaving 
Bruyntjes-Hoogte on my left, and croffing 
that chain of mountains which bear the 
fame name, though they extend to a conli- 
derable 
