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during the night, merely with a view to afFord 
them pleafure. 
After this preparation, I commanded filence ; 
and, caufmg the monarch to approach me, I pla- 
ced the cap upon his head with great folemnity. 
I therl affixed to the fl^in, which formed his 
drefs, feveral rows of glafs beads ; gave him a 
girdle made of a firing of very large ones ; or- 
namented his arms with tin bracelets, and fuf- 
pended from his neck a fmall padlock, iliaped 
like a butterfly, the key of which I had lofl. 
Such padlocks, made in the form of animals of 
every kind, are very common at the Cape, 
They come from China ; and are brought to 
Africa by the captains of the Company's fhips 
which trade in the Indian feas. 
During the ceremony of inftallation, the 
whole horde, dumb and motionlefs through 
admiration, feemed loft in ecftacy. Haripa 
himfelf, though highly gratified, did not dare to 
make the leaft movement, and obferved a gra- 
vity altogether rifible. When the inaugura- 
tion was nniihed, and he was completely 
dreiTed, I prefented him with a mirror, that he 
might enjoy the fatisfad:ion of furveying his 
own figure, I then fhewed him to the people, 
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