AFRICA. 223 
The continual follies of this Imprudent and 
inconfiderate man foreboded him no good. 
With fuch condudtjCarelefs whom he offended, 
he could not fall of running to his deftrudion 
by going among the favages, who are natu- 
rally good and ingenuous, but eafily provoked 
to anger, and dreadful in their vengeance. 
The reader may remember what I have al- 
ready faid of the charadter of this man, who 
had no other objed: but to make a fortune by 
his journeys, and gave himfelf little concern, 
about the refult of mine. His aim was to in- 
timidate, lay wafte, and plunder. All this was 
fufEciently pradicable in the country in w-hich 
we were : but it was not fo eafy for a man 
devoid of genius, deftitute of means, and hav- 
ing form.ed no regular plan, to attain his ends 
without fome mifadventure, and foon or late 
he might be caught unawares. 
This was what happened. Could I have 
feen him before his fudden difappearance, hu- 
manity w^ould affuredly have enjoined it me 
as a duty, to warn him of the inevitable dan- 
gers to which he expofed himfelf, and of which 
he in fad: became the vidim. His Hottentots 
maflacred, his goods and baggage rifled, and 
himfelf 
