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TRANSLATION. 
" Good Friends, 
*' Be so good as to help these people forward towards 
*• the Cape. They are Americans, who have lost their 
*' ship beyond the river Biga : the CafFrees have brought 
'* these people to me, 
Your friend, 
<* John Du Pliesies, 
the elder:' 
We took our departure from the hospita- 
ble mansion of the benevolent Du Pliesies 
on the morning of the second of July. We 
travelled through a country possessing many 
of those variegated beauties I have before 
attempted to delineate. Our guard was 
perpetually on the watch, lest the Boshis- 
men or the wild animals might dart upon 
us unperceived. About eight in the even- 
ing, however, we reached the second farm 
in perfect security. Our journey was about 
thirty-five miles this day, and all my people 
in good spirits* 
The owner, whose name was Cornelius 
Englebrocks, we found also a beneficent 
character. His cottage was poor indeed ; 
but all that he could afford he gave us with 
cheerfulness. I produced his neighbour's 
letter, which he read with great attention, 
