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impoffible for me to fpeak with accuracy of 
its breadth ; but fome eftimation may be 
formed from the time we were upon the water, 
which I obferved to be a full half-hour : mean- 
while an allowance muft be made for the ra- 
pidity of the ftream, which drifted us frqm our 
courfe and retarded our paffage. 
Perceiving my Hottentots to be recovered a 
little from their fatigue, I began to think of 
the moft effedual means of rewarding their 
fidelity ; and I requefted them to aik of me 
with freedom whatever they pleafed. 
Klaas was at this moment fitting by my fide, 
fqueezing me by the hand, and teftifying in 
the moft affedionate manner the pleafure he 
felt at having once more contributed to my 
fafety. " I have a favour," faid he, " to afk 
*^ of you, not for myfelf, but for another. If 
" you think that my friend Jonker" (which 
was the name of my new Hottentot) " has 
aded like a youth of courage, I could wifh 
" you to beftow on him a fufee. It was I 
" who engaged him in your fervice ; it is I 
*' who am refponfible for his condud ; and be 
^' affured he will never give you caufe to re-? 
** pent this indulgence.'* 
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