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or three of his friends to undertake the jour- 
ney along with him ; and to thefe I added 
two of my moft faithful Hottentots, Adams 
and Slanger, who were to give an account to 
the king of every thing I had done for eleven 
months before, from the time that I quitted 
the Cape. In order that he might be enabled 
to judge that curiofity alone had conduced 
me to his territories, I charged my meflengers 
to tell him that, being born in another world, 
and above all a ftranger in Africa, I was in na 
manner either a friend to the planters who 
were carrying on war againft him, or an 
accomplice in their defigns ; that I did not 
even live amongft them ; that I highly dif- 
approved of their condudt ; and, in a word, 
that he might reft aflfured that, as long as I 
remained in his country, he would have no 
occafion to be uneafy at my conduft or mo- 
tions, as they tended to one harmlefs end, 
that of procuring fuch objefts as related to 
my tafte and ftudies ; and that, far from car- 
rying ravage and terror into his poffeffions, I 
would on the contrary embrace every oppor- 
tunity of being ufeful to his fubjedls and to 
himfelf, as I had been to feveral Hottentot 
hordes, who neither fufpeded my fincerity, 
nor 
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