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Captain Muller returned to Swellendam with the three 
Englishmen, the seven lascars, and two black women, the 
boy Price, and the two guides, De Lasso and Evans. The 
people of color were detained at Swellendam ; but the Eng- 
lish were forwarded to the Cape, w^here, after being examined 
by the governor, they were permitted to take their passage to 
Europe in a Danish ship, the captain of which promised to 
land them in England ; but, excepting Price, who was set on 
shore at WejTnouth, they were all carried to Copenhagen, 
from whence they at last found their way to England. 
Such was the termination of the adventures of these unfor- 
tunate people : but the inquiry concerning the fate of the cap- 
tain and his party was not dropped. Though it is probable 
that, before the first Dutch expedition could have reached 
them, they all paid the debt of nature, rumors had been 
spread that several of the English w^ere still in captivity 
among the natives, and these obtained such general belief, that 
M. Vaillant, whose philanthropy equalled his genius and reso- 
lution, made another attempt to discover the reputed captives; 
but he could learn nothing decisive as to their situation 
or final fate. 
The public mind, however, continued still to be agitated, and 
the interest which all nations took in the fate of the unhappy 
persons, particularly the women, some of whom, it was report- 
ed, had been seen, induced a second party of Dutch colonists, 
with the sanction of government, to make another eflbrt to 
explore the country and to reach the Ma'eck. 
These men, amply provided, set out on the 24th of August, 
1793, from KafTer Keyl's River, tovrard Cape Natal, on the 
coast of which the Grosvenor was supposed to have been 
wrecked. Of this expedition we have a journal, kept by 
Van Reenen, one of the party, and published by Capt. Riou. 
It would not be generally interesting to the reader to give the 
meagre details of distance traveled, and elephants killed ; of 
danger encountered, and rivers crossed: we shall therf "-/^ 
confine ourselves to such incidents as appear to deserve n'. 
tice, or are connected with the melancholy subject of our 
narrative. 
After proceeding an immense way, on the 8d of November 
they arrived among the Hombonaas, a nation quite different 
from the CafFres. They have a yellow complexion, and their 
long coarse hair is frizzled up in the form of a turban. Some 
of these people informed our adventurers that, subject to them, 
there was a village of bastard Christians, descended fron^ 
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