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was allowed to keep, a memorandum being taken 
of them. 
My old friend Franz Joubert, meaning to do me 
a friendly action, came out of Maquazi, two days’ 
distance on horseback, to tell the Sandrost he was 
quite certain I was the last man in the world to sell 
powder to the Kaffirs, and that when I had been 
staying with him previously I had refused posi¬ 
tively to let the Kaffirs have a grain at any price; 
but I let him have two sacks at cost price; and on 
producing witnesses to prove this, which ought to 
have gone far towards re-establishing my blemished 
character, the Sandrost immediately brought another 
charge against me of selling powder without a 
license, for which there was a heavy penalty. How¬ 
ever, after a couple of days, this charge was even¬ 
tually quashed, and I was allowed to proceed on my 
journey, after being detained about ten days, and 
taken a long way out of my road. 
I joined Swartz in Merico, and went with him to 
Letloche, about fourteen days’ trek, wdiere our 
routes separated, he trying Mosilikatse again, and I 
taking the route to the Great Lakes. 
Letloche.—April 17th .—I am now left entirely to my 
own devices in the deserts of South Africa, with three 
Kaffirs, two Hottentots, a driver and after rider, a 
wagon, eighteen oxen, a cow and calf, five horses and 
seven dogs, with guns, powder and lead, beads, 
wire, and supplies of tea, coffee, meal, &c., for a 
