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rcafons why the Caffrces detained us fo long. 
They told us, that when they confulted to- 
gether refpefting our departure, it was re- 
iblved not to fuffer us to proceed until they 
got every thing that could be procured from 
the wreck. They conceived we would in- 
form thccolonifts of our misfortune ; and 
that notwithllanding they had no right to 
pafs the FiJh'River^ ftill they knev/ the let- 
tiers would come in fearca of plunder, and, 
which really happened, as I have obferved 
in my introduction to this Narrative. 
I then afked one of the guides, if his 
countrymen had^ during our ftay under th« 
fand-hills^i ever meditated our cleftruftion. 
Tht good favage feemed offended at this quef- 
tion ; he Ihook his head, and em.phatical- 
ly declared, they never once entertained 
fuch an inhuman thought. " No, no, no,'* 
he faid, " that would be a very bad thing. 
— We kill nobody but in v/ar. — No, no, no, 
indeed no his anfwer was thus interpret- 
ed to me, and difmiffing the horrid appel- 
lation of favage at once from my recollec- 
tion, I embraced him as my deliv€r<'r and 
my friend. 
NARRATIVE CONTINUED. 
V7e did not take oair departure on the 
morning of the 23d until the fun was well 
up. Our guides were intelligent, and gave 
us to underftand that we mull on. no account 
