AFRICA. 
would perhaps be defirous once more to 
" afford him the pleafare of feeing jou at the 
" Cape : with this view he has left behind him 
*' his carriage and horfes ; and here is a letter 
" alfo which he has written, and which he re- 
quefted might be delivered to you." 
The beginning of this difcourfe had alarmed 
ine, but, from fome caufe or other, I was re- 
vived by its conclufion. I imagined that, from 
a fportive difpofition, they v^ere defirous for a 
moment of amufmg themfelves vnth me. A 
letter, the carriage and the horfes,— it muft 
furely be a pleafantry ! And fo convinced was 
I of this, that, notwithftanding the air of feri- 
oufnefs with which it was told me, and the 
proteftations of the v^hole family that he was 
actually gone, I vifited, with Percheron, every 
room of the houfe In fearch of the abfentees^ 
not doubting but they had concealed them- 
felves to keep up thejefl:. Alas! They were 
gone ! — My benefaftor had quitted me ! And 
my only confolation w^as to haften to the Cape, 
once more to embrace him before his depar- 
ture. 
The next morning as foon as it was light 
we entered the carriage, Percheron and myfelf. 
Vol, L - H and 
