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fome degree of juftke. Softening, on my 
account, the laws of wHch he was the inter- 
preter, he granted me, before I had time to 
lequeft it, Swanapoel's Hberty, as long as I 
iliould have need of his fervices during my 
abode in Africa, I promifed on my return to 
apply to the government in his behalf : but 
foon after, by an impulfe of generofity that I 
could hardly expect, -Boers fet him completely 
at liberty. He did more: affeQed even to 
tears by the account I gave him of this man's 
condudi:, he was defirous of recompenfmg his 
jfidelity to me by a prefent, which he after- 
v^ards made him, of a complete fet of traveling 
accoutrements, and by an order that he ftiould 
receive arrears of pay for the whole lime 
that he had been with me* Such were the 
delicate and provident attentions by which my 
friends, In emulation of each other, fought 
to encourage my zeal, by interefting in my 
favour, in a thoufand ways, the companions I 
had chofen to partake of my dangers : and 
thus, by afcribing to me all the merit of 
adlions of which I was but the objeft, did 
.they artfully inflill beforehand into my Hot- 
lentots, that fpirit of fubordinatlon and obedi- 
ence, 
