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the caufe of this confufion ; and if I had 
known, how could I have explained it ? 
Under this embarraflment, I took the chief 
by the hand, and advanced with him towards 
the horde. Fear was painted in his coun- 
tenance ; tears began to drop from his eyes ; 
and he fpoke to me with great vivacity. He 
imagined, no doubt, that he was betrayed. 
He complained to me, and accufed my people 
of perfidy ; yet he readily follov^ed me. 
As I was without arms, and prefented my- 
felf with the chief, I was received with con- 
fidence, and my appearance feemed in fome 
ineafure to calm their perturbation. My 
people, who had feen me direct my courfe 
towards the kraal, haftened thither after me, 
to protedt me; and their number overawed 
the multitude. At length, the whole myf- 
tery was cleared up, and we learned what 
had oceafioned the tumult. 
A Kabobiqua having met one of my hunt- 
ers, who was returning v^ith his fufee, wilhed 
to examine it, and begged him to fhew it to 
him. In handling it, however, he accidentally 
touched the trigger ; it inftantly went off 3 and 
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