A F R I C A. 5 
By degrees my fociabillty returned^ and I feit 
(III inclination for company ; but to enjoy a!fo 
my treafures, I was forced to become a ftran- 
ger to myfelf. 
In i^ll my attentions friendfhip had the firft 
place. I once more faw, and preffed to my 
heart, the refpedable Boers, whofe health had 
occafioned me fuch alarm, when I was yet a 
hundred and fifty leagues from the Cape, and 
encamped on the borders of the Kriga. To 
him was I indebted, from the pains he took to 
g^t me into his houfe, after my unfortunate dif- 
after in the bay of Saldanha, for all the fruits 
of fo curious an expedition. He was eager to 
afcertain the ftate of the boxes I had brought 
with me, as he had before employed the utmoft 
precaution in unpacking thofe I had remitted 
to him in the courfe of my travels. His zeal 
had made him ingenious, and fuggefted means 
of prefervation that abfolutely aftoniflied me. 
To oblige me he had become a natural philofo- 
pher ; and my colleftion was not only unim^ 
paired by paffing through his dextrous hands^ 
but he had clafled the different fubjeds of it 
with great propriety and intelligence. The 
arrangement of this cabinet, when I did not 
^ven know whether it had efcaped the accidents 
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