AFRICA. 51 
Having left the table, and retired to our apart- 
ment, we found this adventure ftill more amuf- 
ing than it was grofs. We refolved, however, 
to be even with our hoft, and to read him, in 
return, a ufeful leflbn. He had promifed to 
vifit us at the Cape, and we formed the plan, 
in recompenfe for his wine of Bordeaux, to 
prefent him with fome wine of the worft 
fpecies that could be procured ; which, if it 
did not infpire gaiety, was at Icaft calculated to 
infpire wifdom into the inflated brain of this 
African Jupiter. 
But how great was our aftonifhment when 
we awoke in the morning, and were faluted 
with a mod admirable concert playing under 
our windows 1 Delighted with the enchant- 
ing founds, we endeavoured to guefs their 
caufe. We afked each other, how it could 
happen that this fatrap, the night before, fhould 
have fhown himfelf fo haughty, and now dif- 
play the moft refined attention ? We concluded, 
that either his rudenefs was the affair of a day, 
or that, being fobered by a night's reft, he haft- 
ened to obliterate from our minds the negli- 
gence with which we had been treated. Our 
conjedtures and our praifes were of fhort du- 
E 3 rati op. 
