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our service, that they might have food sind 
clothes. 
The cattle were not recovered : two of them 
were fovmd slaughtered, and those of the party 
who escaped, carried the other two with them. 
Some good, however, may arise out of the capture 
of the Bushmen, to themselves and their coun- 
trymen. 
We took the boy, to endeavour to get him 
provided for and instructed, either at Berend's 
kraal, which was not far from his home, or at 
Griqua Town, but would not take the man. We 
desired him to go home to his friends, and steal 
no more, and left two Hottentots with the horses 
to protect him, for at least half an hour after our 
departure, lest the Matchappees of our party 
should, unperceived by us, return and murder 
him. One Matchappee lagged a little behind, 
it was supposed, for the very purpose, but seeing 
the men halting with the Bush man, he proceeded 
after the waggons.* 
* I was afterwards informed by letter from Mrs. Hamilton 
that on Mr. H.'s return to Lattakoo, some of the Matchappees 
complained loudly that both the Bush man and the boy had not 
been killed. However, Teysso, one of the captains, remarked, 
that white men were God's people, and knew his word, and 
