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no farther to care about him : but this was not 
fufficient ; I was defirous of bringing about a 
complete reconciliation ; and nothing but the 
drunkennefs of the family, from which indeed 
they were yet not recovered, had prevented me 
from executing my projedl. To leave him in 
my camp, while I went to Camis, would be 
expofmg to danger a man to whom in reality 
I was under confiderable obligations. Their 
animofity might happen to revive, and, avail- 
ing themfelves of my abfence, they might play 
him fome trick. In this uncertainty I was 
bound in honour to take him with me ; and 
this was my reafon for propofing it, though I 
had no doubt of a refufal. At firfl: my young 
man appeared to hefitate ; but perceiving my 
firm refolution, unlefs he complied with my 
terms, to rejed his fervices, and afhamed at 
the fame time either to retradl his offer, or to 
objeft in my prefencc to the company of his 
brother, he prefently acquiefced, and the next 
morning at day-break we fet off, attended by 
fome of my Hottentots. 
The chain of Camis v/as to the eaft of us. 
Arrived at the foot of the firft mountains, the 
roads were fo narrow and winding, thai our 
horfes. 
