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lancholy tale of this unfortunate father filled 
me with great grief ; and though I did not 
attempt to allay his, the mofl: profound fi- 
lence expreffed, better than vain reafoning^ 
what confolation he could expedt from a 
feeling heart. He however confeffed, that 
the hatred of the Caffres was Inveterate, but 
that it was very unlucky for the Innocent 
that the efFedls of their vengeance did not 
always fall upon thofe alone who de-* 
ferved it» 
To amufe hinl a little, I begged him to 
pafs the night with me, and I treated him in 
the beft manner I could. 1 regaled him with 
a difli of my niceft tea, and gave him fome 
excellent tobacco. The thread of our con- 
verfdtion having conducted us, I know not 
hoWj to the fubjedt of horfes, he told me 
that one of his friends, who lived near the 
Swart Kops, had fhewn him one which he 
had found when out on a hunting excurfion, 
and that, not being able to difcover to v/hom 
he belonged, he had kept him. This cir- 
cumftance reminded me of the one I had l<ift 
on the banks of the river Krom, at the end 
of the Ange-Kloof, feven or eight months 
before ; and, after the account which I gave. 
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