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'Our Willem makes it,' Van Riebeeck said proudly as the diners applauded. Nicholas, his shirt unbuttoned to the waist, a cigar clamped between his strong teeth, sat behind a table that looked as though it might break under the weight of the food on it. One of the Hottentots had listened intently to this ceremony, and late that afternoon he crept off, taking a route past the fields the free burghers were surveying. The ones we haven't heard of yet in Europe.
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