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specting the fate of Captain Coxson who 
commanded the Grosvenor, and who was 
proceeding on his way to the Cape with 
several men and women passengers, who 
were saved from the wreck. They answered, 
that Captain Coxson and the men were slain. 
One of the chiefs having insisted on taking 
two of the white ladies to his kraal, the 
captain and his people resisted, and, not 
being armed, were immediately destroyed. 
The natives, at the same time, gave me to 
understand, that at the period when the 
Grosvenor was wrecked, their nation was 
at war with the colonists ; and as the cap- 
tain and his crew were whites, they could 
not tell, provided they had reached the 
christian farms, but they would assist the 
colonists in the war. This affected my 
situation so directly, that I desired to know 
on what terms the Caffrees and the colonists 
then stood. — "We are friends," said they, 
" and it will be their fault if we are not 
" always also. " 
This answer relieved me from a very 
serious embarrassment ; but the fate of the 
two unfortunate ladies gave me so much 
