AFRICA. 
graces, and fuch as £he ought to be to pleafc 
delicate and tender fouls, feemed to call 
me at a diftance, and to ftretch out her arms 
towards me. Other fentiments perhaps came 
to her afliftance, to make me unbend my brow, 
and to incite me more and more to bring my 
journey to a conclufion. Certain, from the 
information I had received, that I fliould find 
Mr. Boers at the Cape in good health, every 
ftep I made towards the town added to the 
tranfports of my impatience, which my people 
fmcerely fhared along with me. It was 
impoffible for me to be fo near the Cape 
without wifliing to fee the road that was to 
conduft me thither difappear behind me : my 
whole thoughts therefore were occupied with 
the pleafure I expected to feel on feeing my 
friends ; but above all in embracing him, who 
on many accounts had the beft claim to the 
firft and ,moft diftinguilhed place in my af- 
fedion. 
On the 26th, after having efcaped, if I may 
exprefs myfelf fo, ten plantations which lay 
in our way, I crofTed the Broad River; a league 
farther, the Waater-Val^ or Water-fall; and af- 
terwards fome more plantations, which un- 
doubtedly had been long waiting to fee me 
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