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CHAPTER IX. 
General Craig's reception of the captain stated. — Ad- 
miral Elphinstone's liberal and noble conduct de- 
scribed, — List of the settlers who behaved kindly 
to the captain and his crew delivered to Admiral 
Elphinstone by his own directions. — General ob- 
servations. — The captain arrives in England. 
The only thing now wanting to complete 
my happiness was the arrival of my poor 
people. The major part of them were 
creeping after me to implore relief, and 
they looked to my exertions as the me- 
dium through which their miseries would 
be alleviated. 
Every painful reflection on this occasion 
at once subsided when I considered that 
a British officer had the command at the 
Cape. I had a letter to Genera] Craig 
from his worthy and respectable friend, the 
Landorse of Zwellingdam ; but the situa- 
tion of my people, who had survived such 
a series of calamities, could not fail, as I 
conceived, to awaken the feelings of hu- 
manity; and 1 knew this virtue to be the 
predominant characteristic of a British sol- 
