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tlic moft unexampled miferies. tlicy all ar- 
rivedin fafety at the Cape. 
We were now forty-^even in number, and 
as we were to proceed in waggons, I bad 
the fatisfadion to know that fuch as were 
afflicted with fore feet, or weak through 
hunger and fatigue, v/ould not again be 
feparated from their companions. 
My next confideration was to reward our 
faithful guides.— How to da this, made me 
for fome tim.e extremely uncafy. At length, 
a very unexpefted information relieved me 
from this embarraffment. One of my peo- 
ple gave me to underftand, that a failor, 
who was of the party, had poff'effed him- 
felf of a dozen of my tahle-fpoom^ and like- 
wife feveral tea-fpoom before he quitted the 
wreck, all of which he had then about him, 
I immediately v/ent up to the man and de- 
ma;nded my property ; he returned them 
without a moment's hefitation, giving me 
to underftand, ^^t the fame time, that he 
intended reftoring them to me when we ar- 
rived at the Cape. Four or five of the larg- 
ctt Ipoons I gave the farmer, who in return 
delivered to me t%vo oxen of an extraordinary 
fize, and a like num.ber of J})cep. Thefe I 
requefte3 our two guides to accept or as a 
revv^ard for their labour and fidelity. They 
thanked me heartily, and fet out on their 
return to the fertile and delightful plains of 
Caffraria. 
Our benevolent hoft now prov ided us 
with a waggon and tvv^o fets of oxen, each 
