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can. With all your ingenious delicacy and fub* 
lime ideas of generofity, a trait of friend fhip 
and feeling, fimple and genuine as this. My 
dear Klaas, how often, invited to the houfes of 
perfonages of rank, complimented by fome^ 
careffed by others, difiinguifhed by all, how 
often, in the midft of flattering favours and 
brilliant promifes, have I opened your box of 
infeds, and thanked you for the iliort, but de- 
licious inftants of pleafure, which formerly di- 
verfified the tedious hours, when my fingle re- 
fource was to difplay to you ray knowledge, 
and unwillingly to entrap your applaufe ! 
Klaas did not flay long after he had deliver- 
ed his prefent. The treafure he had received be- 
gan to embarrafs him. He thought of the wife I 
had given him, into whofe hands he was eager 
to depofit his wealth. Having firft learned 
from him, that, the other companions of my 
travels, fcattered here and there in the vicinity 
of his horde, were tranquil and happy, my cat- 
tle in good condition, my waggons and furni- 
ture under cover and fecure, and my whole ca- 
ravan ready to attend me at a moments fum- 
mons, I embraced my faithful coadjutor and 
fuffered him to depart. 
This unexpeded vifit on the part of Klaas 
brought 
