TRAVELS IN 
When the emotion of Swanapoel was fome-^ 
what appeafed, and he was capable of attend- 
ing to me, I told him my projeds, and 
promlfed he fhoiild accompany me. In my 
grand expedition indeed this was impolEble, 
From its uncertainty and the difficulties that 
might attend it, and confidering too his 
advanced age and the fatigues of our former 
journey, I could not think of taking him fo 
far* But the colony afforded a field fuC- 
ficiently ample for me to be defirous of availing 
myfelf once more of his fervices. I iliould 
Jiave been hateful to my own eyes if, at a 
.time when he had fo much reafon to rejoice, 
,and when there yet remained of life a fhort 
interval which he might fpend in tranquillity 
and honour in the bofom of his family, I had 
expofed him at a diftance to the rifk of pe- 
rifliing. The offer I made him of our tra- 
verfmg the colony together feemed perfedlly 
to fatisfy him ; or at leaft if he felt mortified 
at the idea that I fhould take him no farther, 
lie w^as careful to conceal it, and even after- 
wards, in his intercourfe with my people, not 
^ word of difcontent efcaped his lips. 
I have already explained, in my former 
narrative, 
