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,and, to incite them the more, I did not fail to 
add, that amongft the cargo of the velTel, which 
was ftill partly on the coaft, each of them 
might eafily procure a thoufand comforts for 
the remainder of their lives. This argument 
feemed to have fome efFe£t upon them for 
the moment; but I entertained very few 
hopes ; though they eagerly replied that, if 
things were as I had reprefented them, it was 
very proper to go to the affiftance of thefe un- 
fortunate people ; who, as they faid, were their 
brothers, and their fellow-creatures. 
The moft cunning, as being the moft timid 
of the whole company, confidering my fpeech 
only in that view in which his intereft was 
concerned, added for the reft, that it was 
more than probable that the CafFres had al- 
ready plundered the vefTel, and carried away 
the beft part of the cargo; that they fhould 
find perhaps nothing at all, or, if any thing, 
not fo much as would indemnify them for 
the rifques and expences of fuch a journey ; 
and that, during their abfence, their wives, 
and their children, would be left expofed to 
the danger of being maflacred by the CafFres. 
From this difcourfe I was fully convinced 
that nothing could tempt them to undertake 
this 
