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crous Elphinstone. He participated m 
tlie miferies of my people, and frccjaently 
lamented their misfortunes ixi terms thai 
did honour to the Sailor and the Man. 
I olFer this public teftimony of my vene- 
ration andreiped for an officer whofe pro- 
feffional characler will fill a bright page in 
the annals of his country, and whofe gen- 
erous nature entitles him to a diltinguiliied 
place in the Temple of WoRTHr^s. 
On my fecond vilit to the Admiral, he 
interrogated m.e rei|3ev5ljng the colonics. I re- 
joiced at the opportunity of repaying him', 
in a certain degree, for Ms liberality, and I- 
gave him a faithful an.d long detail of what 
1 had obferved of thefe people du ring" my 
travels through their country. Of this I 
lhail fpeak more at length in the concluding 
part of this work. His obfervaticms difcov- 
ered a comprehenfive and penetrating rnind. 
He left nothing untouched that he thought 
neceffary far his information. After I had 
defcribed the general conduct of the fettlers 
throughout the whole of ray journey, he 
defired to knov/, if I could recoiled: the 
names of tbofe farmers who had treated me 
and my people with fo much kindnefs. — -I 
told him, 1 believed I could recolleft the moll 
of them, and in a fliort time afterwards de- 
livered into his hand the following lift. 
yobn Du Pliefies^ Cornelius Englebracb^ Philip 
Coiie^ yohannes Slayzuersj Peter Fanforus^ Pe^ 
ter-Gorfe^ Theodores Mullar^ Millar^ Cap^ 
tain, of Mi! itia^.. Peter De Praije^ Baron^ Lh 
