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to attend me, and on their fo foon forgetting 
the care, provifions, and proteftion, I had af- 
forded them. In vain did I tell them that I 
confidered them all as cowards, traitors, and 
more deteftable enemies than the Caffres : I 
only redoubled their fear, and infpired them 
with hatred againft myfelf. I could read in 
all their countenances that terror had got en- 
tire pofTeffion of their hearts. On this account 
I refolved to fay nothing farther ; and on the 
approach of night, after having ordered watch 
to be kept with the utmoft attention, I fliut 
myfelf up in my tent. Being informed at 
break of day that thefe ftrangers were pre- 
paring to depart, with their wives, children, 
cattle, and all their efFedls, I forbade any one 
to take leave of them ; and, without lofs of 
time, gave orders for having every thing ready,, 
that I alfo might fet out and purfue my jour- 
ney. In four hours we crolTed the mountain 
Agter-Bruyntjes-Hoogte ; and, being refrefhed 
by a fhower of rain which came feafonably to 
our relief, at the end of four hours we en- 
camped, in order to pafs the night. As vs^e 
marched along we obferved fome more de- 
ferted habitations, the proprietors of which 
were doubtlefs among the number of the 
confe- 
