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*^ whom I efteem fufEciently to permit them 
" to attend me, fliould ever take upon him to 
" mention his name, I will immediately fend 
" him away without m.ercy, in whatever place 
we may be fituated. However, I will not 
" abandon the wretch in the midft of a defert : 
" let him come back, therefore, to my camp ; 
" where, till my return, I permit him to remain 
" with SwanepoeL" 
This fpeech had all the effed: I intended on 
thofe by whom it was heard. The very men 
who the day before were all ready to quit me, 
becaufe I talked of a new journey, had now 
no higher ambition than that of accompanying 
me in it. Every one begged leave to attend 
me : it was who fhould obtain the preference: 
and this was folicited with earneftnefs as a 
favour. 
That the fervour of this zeal might net 
abate, I appointed the next day but one, which 
was the fourteenth of December, for my de- 
parture. At the fame time, to give Klaas a 
certain degree of confequence among his com- 
rades, and reward him for the uniform fidelity 
he had always Ihown to me, I left him to 
make the feledion ; and announced, that I 
would 
