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..CHAPTER VIL 
RemarkaUe Jiory of a RntNOCEROsv related hy t$e colonij? 
—Tk& farmers geiT-raiiy dlfconUnUd 'with the Dutch gov- 
ernment cit the Cape — Neighbauring, colomjls arrhe at 
Du Plies lEs — Their eomuB defer ibed — ¥/ctggon ntumy 
^mth twenty-three m'oy — Thirteen firc(yhd—R^ 
*viurd and d'fmfs the Caffree gtiid^i-^Revo?nmendatctrf 
Ittli^r gi-utn by the Farmer to the Captain in- the Dutch 
i^ngiiag^ — Their deprarture fro?n D u Fl i F. s i E s — Arrrve 
at another Chr if iaji fettkment — -Their reception aitd de^ 
f ar t ure-^ Proceed on the fanrmy~3oih.is-mtn defcrihed' 
—The party tra'oelling throagh a valley y in great dunger 
froni thi lLiO\^t^i%'m^Xi~They get through without injury y 
arJ enter a champaign country^ 
HEN OUT meal was overj the wor- 
thy colonift began to interrogate^us 
relpcAiiig OUT journey through Cajfraria. 
lie could not poilibly conceive, he fakl> how 
the TaiYibQuchu could be induced to faffer our 
departure. They were fuch a horrid race^ 
that nothing was fo gratifying to their na« 
ture as the fcedding of human blood. The 
Bojhis'men^ he alfo obferved,, were fo nume-- 
rous, and fo perpetually on the look out, 
that he was amazed at our travelling with 
any degi'ee of fecurity ; but when he con- 
fideri^d that v/e came through a part of 
Caffraria^ fo infefted with carnivorous ani* 
nials. that people could never travel fafely 
but in p-vities, and well armed^ he declared 
cirr bf.^-:r.; • ;;^?n in his houfe appeared to hiiBi. 
