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turn round in them, and to fiiow us the enor- 
mous caflvs, with hoops of brafs extremely- 
bright, and the age of the wine marked upoa 
each caflc, with legal atteftations. 
The name of this man was Cloete. When 
bufmefs of inj kind called him to the town^ 
which was frequent, he feldom failed to pay 
his court to the fifcal, and in the courfe of thefe 
vifits he pretended to be extremely defirous of 
. feeine me ag-ain at his houfe, at Conllantia. 
Finding little artraclion in the beauty of a cel- 
lar, or a caik, 1 had always excufed myfelf. 
But one day he was fo in'gent in his entreaties, 
and propoled, in fo obliging a manner, a hunt, 
in which his fons were to accompany me, and 
-which promifed confiderable amufement, with- 
out requiring either preparations or expence, 
that I fuffered myfelf to be prevailed upon, and 
fixed a day with him. . 
I kept my word, and repaired to Conftantia 
at the appointed time, in company with 
Larcher, one of Boers's friends. Upon enter- 
ing the habitation of our hoft, how great was 
our furprife at the parade of oftentatious gran- 
deur, and the air of ftately fuperiority, with 
which we were received, and which formed a 
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