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through hunger and fatigue, would not 
again be separated from their companions. 
My next consideration was to reward our 
faithful guides. How to do this made me 
for some time extremely uneasy. At length, 
a very unexpected information relieved me 
from this embarrassment. One of my peo- 
ple gave me to understand that a sailor, 
who was of the party, had possessed himself 
of a dozen of my table-spoons, and likewise 
several tea-spoons, before he quitted the 
wreck, all of which he had then about him. 
I immediately went up to the man, and de- 
manded my property; he returned them 
without a moment's hesitation, giving me 
to understand, at the same time, that he 
intended restoring them to me when we 
arrived at the Cape. Four or five of the 
largest spoons I gave the farmer, who in 
return delivered to me two oxen of an 
extraordinary size, and a like number of 
sheep. These I requested our two guides 
to accept of, as a reward for their labour 
and fidelity. They thanked me heartily, 
and set out on their return to the fertile 
and delightful plains of Caffraria. 
