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CHAPTER IV. 
The natives in a sham fight show their mancEUvrings 
in battle. — Manner of throwing the assaygay de- 
scribed. — The long boat and crew never seen or 
heard of more. — CafFree chief consents to their de- 
parture. — Provides them with guides. — Conducts 
them to a brook of fresh water which ran through 
the hollow of a sequestered wood. — Apprehensions 
of the crew respecting the Caffrees described. — 
Natives and the crew remain together all night in 
the hollow. — Fresh alarms. — CafFree chief presents 
the captain on the next day with another bullock.— 
The departure of the crew on the ensuing morning, 
and the kind behaviour of the natives on that occa- 
sion described. 
Having secured all we could obtain at 
present from the wreck, I requested the 
chief to order some of his people to show 
me how they used their assaygays. This 
is a spear of about four feet six inches 
in length, made of an elastic wood, and 
pointed with iron, which they contrive to 
poison so effectually, that if it wounds either 
man or beast, death is the inevitable con- 
sequence. 
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