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in you as In myfelf ; and that Mr. Boers's 
" liieflenger, on his retutn to the Cape^ may 
" be able to aflure your friends and families 
that you are well, and that you are con- 
*^ tented and happy, I wifh him to be a wit- 
" nefs of the amicable manner in which I treat 
" you ; and for this reafon I fliall dlftribute 
to each of you an Excellent roll of tobacco : 
" I hope, therefore^ that all your pipes will 
be iriftantly lighted." — When my diftribu^ 
tion was finifhed, each retired to his place, 
and fmoked at his eafe. 
I was fo overjoyed with the teftimonies of 
afFedion which I received from my relations 
and friends, with their fmcere proteftations of 
attachment^ and with the accurate informal 
tion which they all gave me in their letters, 
that, intoxicated with pleafure, forgetting 
Africa, my hunting excurfions, my moft beau* 
tiful birds^ and my elegant colleftions, and in 
iEt word for that moment beconiing a child, 
I devifed in ofder to amufe me what might 
arojong certain ranks be called a feflival^ and by 
thofe of an inferior clafs a farce. 
I had been too generous in diftributing my 
tobacco; and my people had received more 
than was fuffioient to intoxicate them, had I 
R 2 permitted 
