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nor rcfufed my affiftance : I added, that the go- 
vernment at the Cape, to whom I would give 
a faithful account of every thing I had feen, 
v/ould lofc no time to reftore tranquillity ia 
his territories, and to re-eftablifh that harmony 
which had fubfifted between him and the plan- 
ters. Having inftruded my deputies in this 
manner, particularly thofe belonging to my 
camp, to whom I enjoined the greateft fecrecy 
refpefting certain particulars which I entrufted 
to them alone (fuch, for example, as the ex- 
prefs orders of bringing fome Caffres along 
with them, that I might be able to judge 
what degree of confidence they repofed in 
me, and to fee how far I ought to grant 
them mine), I gave them a few prefents for 
the prince, and difmilTed them. Having pro- 
mifed to return foon to Koks-Kraal, where I 
was to wait for them, each of them made 
fuch provifion as he thought necefTary, and 
then they departed, 
I myfelf fet out in the morning; and, after a 
march of three hours, we found ourfelves on 
the banks of the Groot-Vis-Rivier, where the 
heat was exceflive. Though the earth, covered 
all over with large round pebbles, rendered 
the way exceedingly laborious for the oxen, 
we 
