SOUTHERN AFRICA. 93 
The trial of the boors for fedition having engrofled fo much 
of the public converfation, his Majefty's Fifcal, or Attorney- 
General to profecute for the crown in all criminal cafes, deter- 
mined for once, though contrary to eftablifhed ufage, to carry 
on the whole proceedings with open doors. The prifoners were all 
found guilty, and three of them condemned to fuffer death ; but 
by the lenity of the Britifh government which, in this colony was, 
on moft occafions, carried to an extreme, the fentence was ne- 
ver put in execution. On the reftoration of the colony the 
convided boors were delivered into the hands of the new go- 
vernors, who, on this occafion, could not do lefs than pronounce 
a general amnefty ; in which cafe, they will, moft probably, 
be allowed to return to their old connexions, and to their old 
habits. 
But to return to the affairs of Graaf Reynet. The general 
having thus got rid of the rebel chiefs, and thereby put an end, 
as he thought, to further difturbances, concluded that little 
now remained to be done, but to colledl his fcattered forces from 
the different parts of the diftridt, and to affemble them at head- 
quarters in Bruyntjes Hoogte ; part of which he meant to em- 
bark on board the Rattlefnake, and the remainder to fend over 
land, by eafy marches, to the Gape. 
In croffing the country from Algoa Bay to the northward, in 
order to put his plan in execution, to our no lefs furprize than 
mortification, we fell in with a large party of Hottentots, fo 
difguifed, and drefied out in fuch a whitnfical and fanraftical 
manner, that we were totally at a lofs to conjedure what to 
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