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ill treatment Kees was In a terrible rage, and 
from that moment took a diflike to the officer. 
At whatever diftance he perceived him ap- 
proachingj his cries and geftures fufficiently 
denoted the defire he felt of avenging me. He 
grinded his teeth and made the moft painful 
efforts to dart upon him. In vain had the of- 
fender frequently attempted, by the offer of 
dainties, to foften his anger. Refentment had 
left a profound hatred in the foul of Kees^ 
which it required a long time to efface,. 
The impotence of his exertions, to wipe 
away the flain which my honour had fuffered 
by the affront, denotes that the unfortunate 
animal was chained. It was the fear of loling 
him that induced me to adopt fo de^-rading; a 
meafure. His fame had gained him fuch nu- 
merous friends, that, if he efcaped from the 
ho life, he was fure to be ftolen, either by the 
failors who would have conveyed him on 
board, or by the inhabitants of the Cape, who 
would have fecreted him till I was gone, or 
even by the flaves who would have roafted and 
eaten him. 
Poor Kees appeared to have a melancholy 
fenfe of his flavery. Boers, indeed, had pro- 
vided him with a very handfome kennel 5 but 
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