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verfation was interefting, but not fo much fo 
as to interfere with the bottie ; and as, for want 
of goblets, they were obliged to make ufe 
of bafms, in a little time the whole com- 
pany, not excepting the mother and her two 
daughters, were completely drunk. For my- 
felf, who did not partake in their jollity, I feized 
the opportunity to withdraw, and fpent the 
night in my camp. 
Engelbrecht arrived the next day. He brought 
with him his family, which was more nume- 
rous than that of Van der Wefthuyfen, and 
their arrival was commemorated with repeated 
bumpers of brandy. This folemnity over, fome 
one propofed to vifit me in my tent, and I 
foon faw the whole company approaching. It 
was reafonable to expefl: that fuch a vifit would 
be accompanied w^ith civility; but they were 
already heated with liquor. Engelbrecht was 
the firft to addrefs me ; and this man, whom 
1 had never feen, and who was bound on va-^ 
rious accounts to treat me with attention, de- 
manded, in a rude tone, why I had admitted 
into my troop fueh a rafcal as Klaas Bafter. 
This imptrtlnent queflion fatisfied me, that 
the fecret of the prefence of Bafter w^as known. 
Q 4 Now^ 
