c 5^ y 
tfianlced them intlic name of myts'hole cte\r^ 
and on the part of my nation^ for the liber- 
al and humane affiftance they had afforded 
ms in the hour of out misfortune, and foli- 
cited their future kindnefs and fupport. 
This being as I conceived at no great dif- 
tance from the fpot where the Grosvenor 
was loft in 1782, I inquired of the natives, 
whether any of them remembered fuch a 
cataftrophe- Moft of them anfwered in the 
affirmative, and, afctnding one of the fand- 
liills, pointed t® the place where the Grofve- 
nor fuffered, 
I then defired to know of them, whether 
they had received any certain accounts, re^ 
fpecling the fate of Captain Ccxfon^ who com- 
manded the Grofvenor, and who Was pro- 
ceeding on his way to the Cape, with feveral 
men and women paffeiagers, who were fa- 
ved from the wrecks They anfwered^ that 
Captain Coxfm and the men were llain. One 
of the chiefs having infifted on taking twb^ 
of the white ladies to his kraal., the Captain 
and his people refifted, and not being arm- 
ed, were immediately deftroyed. The na- 
tives at the fame tirne gave me to under- 
ftand, that at the period the Grofvenor was 
wrecked, their nation was at war with the 
colonifts ; and as the Captain and his crew 
- were whites, they could not tell, provided 
they had reached the chi^iftian farms, but 
they would affift the colonifts in the war. 
This aSeded my fitup.tion fo direcily, thai 
