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it was resolved not to suffer us to pro- 
ceed until they got every thing that could 
be procured from the wreck. They con- 
ceived we would inform the colonists of 
our misfortune ; and that notwithstanding 
they had no right to pass the Fish River, 
still they knew the settlers would come in 
search of plunder, and which really hap- 
pened, as I have observed in my introduc- 
tion to this Narrative. 
I then asked one of the guides if his 
countrymen had, during our stay under 
the sand-hills, ever meditated our destruc- 
tion. The good savage seemed offended 
at this question ; he shook his head, and 
emphatically declared, they never once 
entertained such an inhuman thought. 
" No, no, no," he said, that would be 
" a very bad thing. We kill no body but 
in war. — No, no, no, indeed no !" His 
answer was thus interpreted to me, and 
dismissing the horrid appellation of savage 
at once from my recollection, I embraced 
him as my deliverer and my friend. 
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