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tcafons for fuifering the tempeft to thrc>x 
you andi your people on our coaft ?'V I re- 
plied, that his reaibns for fo doing were a- 
bove our coinprchenfions ; but that, as iic 
was not only all-powerful, but juft, wc 
{hould remain fatislied that all his acts w^ero 
good «lnd beneficent. When this was c:;- 
plained to the Chief, I obferved 2, /mile on 
his countenance ; but ftarting, as if a fud- 
den andhoftile thought had feizcd his mind^ 
Ke defired to know, if my Abragbiy could 
tame the wild animals of the deferts I 
replied, that he certainly could. " If this 
be true ! exclaimed the^^rc.'^^c^, he muft be 
a A^ery wicked Being, for he fuffered a lion 
to kill and<f^/ my father.'* As I bad ob- 
tained the information I wanted, and obferv- 
ing the paflions of the man highly agitatd 
at the rccolleclion of his father's melancho- 
ly fate, I thought it neceflary to change the 
converfatian, and wx immediately proceed- 
ed tow^ards the Ihore. 
The. principal part of my people, and more 
of the Caffrees', were employed during thi;] 
converlation on the beach ; and I had the 
fatisfac5iion to obferve, they had procured 
feveral pair of trowfers, many ftiirts, jack^ 
ets, pieces of timber, and fome cordage. I 
had before picked up four foirts and a pair of 
trowfers, which I then wore. The natives 
fcemed highly pleafed with their new habiU 
iments, but they did not know how to put 
then) on. Somic had placed the hind part 
