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was Incenfed at this a£l of treachery, but mticH 
more at the ingratitude and infidelity of Baflerj^ 
'■who had entered into an engagement with me^ 
and was in my pay. Fired with jufl refent- 
jnent, I feat for him ; and without a word of re- 
proach, I put into his hand the money we had 
agreed upon, and ordered him inftantly to with- 
draw^asl had no further occafion for hisferviceSc 
So unexpeded a difmifTal mortified and hum- 
bled him. Swanepoel feized this moment of 
fhame to point out to him his fault ; and he 
fpoke with the more warmth, becaufe he knew 
he fhould render me a confiderable fervice by 
bringing him back, as he underftood the Ian* 
guages of the feveral people among whom we 
were going to travel. Inihort, the negotiation 
was fo fuccefsful, that tvv^o hours after Bafief 
came to me to beg pardon for his folly, and to 
return me my money. To convince him of 
my forgetting the whole, I made him a prefent 
of what he had received. But Pinar no fooner 
heard this winding-up of his plot, than, dread- 
ing the jufl reproaches he had reafon to expecfi 
from me, he inftantly yoked his oxen to his 
waggon, and departed without faying a word 
to any one. 
