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At length darkness and their eating-time coming 
on, they gradually dispersed, which gave us an 
opportunity of covering our table. The young 
King was brought and introduced to us. He 
was short, about sixteen years of age, had nothing 
interesting in his appearance, and wore many 
ornaments. Several other persons were also in- 
troduced. 
Moeelway sent to us a considerable quantity of 
milk and boiled Caffre corn. He told us very 
seriously that he had lost his heart, that it was 
quite gone into one of our dogs. To me this was 
incomprehensible, till he explained the mysterious 
language. It appeared that he coveted a hand- 
some dog belonging to one of the Hottentots, 
which he was willing to purchase. We told 
him the owner should be spoken to upon the 
subject. 
Three men came for the milk-vessels, in which 
Moeelway had sent us the milk, and entered 
the tent : they viewed with wonder the things 
that stood on the table, and which consisted 
chiefly of tin articles, knives and forks, cups and 
saucers. They were amazed to see the use 
which we made of all these things, and said to 
each other, " Surely these are gods and not 
men." 
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