:228 TRAVELS IN 
one of thofe people, of whom polifhed nations 
never fpeak but with horror or contempt ; 
whom, without knowing, they confider as 
atrocious beings, the refufe of nature ; in 
a word, by an African favage, a Caffre, a Hot- 
tentot. 
When I left the Cape, Mr. Boers gave me 
this man, as a perfon upon whofe bravery 
and fidelity I could depend. He had expreff- 
ly charged him never to abandon me, whether 
dead or alive ; promifing to reward him hand- 
fomely, if, on my return to the Cape found 
and fafe, I fhould give a fatisfadory tefti- 
mony refpedling his behaviour. It was this 
man that never quitted me for a moment ; 
and who, having feen me fuddenly difappear, 
hurried to my affiftance, though he fought for 
me in vain. I heard him through the bufhes 
call me with a faint voice, which indicated his 
anxiety ; then addrefs himfelf to my dejeded 
and confounded companions, who followed 
at a little diftance, and reproach them with their 
timidity, when furrounded by danger. " What 
" will become of us? " faid he, in his own ex- 
preffive and affeding language — what will 
" become of us, fhould we have the misfortune 
to find our unhappy mafter trod to death 
" under 
