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Iiolding them up as models for Imitation to the 
madmen by whom they fhould be fucceeded. 
My morning walk offered me nothing new. 
But, as I was advancing along the banks of the 
river, I was much aftonlflied to hear the re- 
port of guns ; and I afeed Schoenmaker, who 
v/as with me, from whence they could proceed. 
He had refided on the banks of the river, and 
was confequently acquainted with the country; 
and he told me, that the perfons by whom they 
were fired wers probably Matthew Moodel and 
Bernfry, hunting hippopotami. 
I knew both thefe men by name^ one of 
whom, like Schoenmaker, was a deferter from 
the Company; but at the Tame time they were 
men of a very different chara(3:er, being per- 
haps the moft determined villains in all Africa. 
I had heard of their crimes, and I -^vas not to 
be informed, that their names were held in the 
iitmoft execration, and that they were pro- 
fcribed even in the colony. 
Knowing all this, I could not eafily conceive 
how they had been able to procure powder. 
To fuch people, indeed, nothing was facred; 
and they might have obtained it by fome new 
theft or murder. On the other hand, it was 
P 4 poffible 
