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which I ought to purfue In order to fucceed. ' 
He himfelf fpared neither care nor labour, 
I was happy enough to obtain permiffion to 
take a paffage for the Cape in a veflel belong- 
ing to the Eaft-India Company, The time of 
my departure was fixed : and I procured from 
my refpedlable friend very warm recommend- 
ations ; without which, by a fingular fatality, 
as will be feen hereafter, I fhould have been 
infallibly expofed to the moft cruel embarraff- 
ment. 
Matters being thus far fettled, I employed 
myfelf, without remiffion, in making the ne- 
cefTary preparations for this grand entcrprize. 
When I had procured every thing that I 
thought likely to be of ufe to me in the inte- 
rior parts of Africa, I took leave of my friends, 
and of Europe; and, fetting out in a boat which 
came to receive me, was conduded to the 
Texel aboard of the Held-JVoltemaade^^ a veC- 
fel deftined for Ceylon, but which was to 
touch at the Cape of Good Hope. The wind 
being unfavourable for quitting the Texel, we 
were under the neceffity of waiting eight days^ 
* The Captain's name was S ■ 
C During 
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