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to fiipply me on my journey. In vain did I 
reprefent to him that I had purchafed a fuffi- 
clent ftock, when at the houfe of Liewenberg. 
He went and examined my carriages hlmfdf, 
and filled every empty fpace he could find 
with the produce of his orchards, w^hlch 
afterwards, and during the greater part of my 
journey, proved an agreeable relief both to me 
and my people. 
To this obliging mark of attention he added, 
with the fame kindnefs, a prefent which was 
much better calculated to afford me pleafure. 
It confijfted of three pair of pigeons of a par- 
ticular fpecies, none of which I had ever be- 
fore feen. However agreeable to me might be 
fuch an acqulfitlon ; I would, however, accept 
but one of the three pair, as that was fufficient 
for our amufement ; and I begged my generous 
hoft to keep the other two till I came back, 
though I had fully refolved v/ithin myfelf not 
to return. 
In pailing the plantations of Ifaac Feraffi 
and Gerlt Schmit, I was expofed to a frefli 
perfecution from invitations ; but as I had not 
the fame motives to induce me to accept thefe 
as I had to accept that of Haanekam,, I abib- 
I lutely 
