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had fent an exprefs to his fifter to inform her 
of it ; and ihe, having her curiofity excited, 
haftened to fee me. She was a very charming 
woman ; not poiTefTed indeed of the flender 
fliape or ingenuous fimpUcity of Narina ; on 
the contrary, a flight degree of corpulency was 
prejudicial to the agility of her motions, and 
fhe had all the airs and coquetry incident to the 
remembrance of diftinguiflied birth ; for fhe 
was not born a favage, and no doubt laid claim 
to a far fuperior nature. 
Her father Vvras an European, w^ho in hi^ 
youth had gone over to the Cape, and who, 
firft in the fervice of the company, and next of 
a farmer, had contrived, by his labour and 
induftry, to form to himfelf a pretty confider- 
able eftablifhment, about five-and-twenty or 
thirty leagues off, on the banks of the Groene- 
Rhier (green river). At firft he had cohabited 
with a Hottentot woman, by whom he had 
Klaas Bafter, Piet Bafter, and their fifter. But 
growling vain in proportion as he grew rich, he 
became afhamed of his wife, and feparated 
from her to marry a white. The latter 
brought him feveral children, two of whom, 
boys, the one twenty, the other twenty-two 
years 
