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may find ufeful to his interefl : a new maffa-* 
ere then takes place, which is only a prelude 
to more carnage ; for if the CafFres have the 
audacity to recover, by force or by ftratagem^ 
the cattle taken from them in confequence of 
this order, furreptitioufly obtained from the 
governor, and which continues in force till 
there are no more vidlms, thefe planters 
fatiate their vengeance by the moft. horrid 
flaughter. 
Thus did this war, or rather this pillaging, 
continue all the time that I refided in Africa. 
Neither commercial fpeculatlons nor a fond- 
nefs for any fervice conducted me to the Cape. 
The natural impulfe of my difpofition, and a 
defire of acquiring new knowledge, made me 
dired: my courfe to that part of the world : 
I arrived there perfedly free, and with a mind 
not in the lead biaffed by prejudice. I made 
myfelf better acquainted with the interior 
parts of the country, and the unknown natives 
by whom it is inhabited, than with any of the 
colonies belonging to the Cape, or even the 
Cape itfelf, which I did not know, but at the 
different periods of my return. I had no per- 
fonal intereft in view to make me be fufpe£led 
of partiality ; but I have every where feen 
very 
