AFRICA. M 
Gonfequence. I had great reafon to entertam 
a high idea of myfelf, as I was going, by a 
fingle word, to be the founder or reftorer of 
the greateft power that one mortal can exercife 
over others. 
I learned by my interpreters, that the de- 
ceafed had left feveral fons of fufFicient age to 
fucceed him ; and yet thefe fons had been dn- 
tirely forgotten ; notwlthftanding what Kolben 
tells^of the wonderful order which prevails, as 
to fucceffion, among the African tribes, and 
of the continuance of the crown in the reigning 
families. The courfe didated to me by pru- 
dence, and the only one I could purfue under 
the prefent circumftances, was to watch the 
different events likely to refult from this fcene, 
and to take advantage of that which I might 
think moft favourable to my views. A for- 
tunate circumftance foon enabled me to carry 
my plan into execution. 
Unarmed and without any precaution, 
though fufrounded by this enraged multitude, 
I walked calmly along in the midft of them • 
and, when we arrived at the kraal, I ordered my 
tent to be immediately formed, as if I had been 
furrounded by my friends and relations. 
This 
