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and the, refolutlon they had tlierefore taken to apply for redrefs 
before the Englifh troops (hoiild leave the country. That their 
employers, fufpeding then' intention, had endeavoured to pre- 
vent fuch application by confining fome to the houfe, threaten- 
ing to fhoot others if they attempted to efcape, or to punifh 
their wives and children in their abfence. And^ in proof of 
what he advanced, he called out a young Hottentot, whofe 
thigh had been pierced through v^ith a large mufquet ball but 
two days before, fired at him by his mafter for having attempted 
to leave his fervice. *' This aft," continued he, " among many 
" others equally cruel, refolved us at once to colledt a fufficient 
" force to deprive the boors of their arms, in which we have 
*' fucceeded at every houfe which has fallen in our way. We 
" have taken their fuperfluous clothing in lieu of the wages 
*' due for our fervlces, but we have dripped none, nor injured 
" the perfons of any, though," added he, fhaking his head, 
" we have yet a great deal of our blood to avenge." 
Such a rencontre at this time v/as extremely embarraffing, 
and the more fo as it appeared thefe were a very Anall part of 
their countrymen that v/ere then adually arming themfelves 
againft the boors, and plundering their houfes. They informed 
us, moreover, that fome of their countrymen, not willing to 
throw themfelves on the protedtion of Grangers, had fled among 
the Kaffers ; but that the greateft part were on the road to Algoa 
Bay, to lay their unhappy fituation before the Englifh general. 
The connedion that had long fubfifled between the boors and 
the Hottentots, a connedion that was kept up by violence and 
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