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Message: <blockquote data-quote="l_raty" data-source="post: 3427481" data-attributes="member: 24811">"Levaillant's" Klaas (he recurrently calls him "mon Klaas" -- "my Klaas") and Klaas Baster are two distinct persons.Klaas is present all along the book. The meeting of Levaillant (then accompanied by "his" Klaas) and Klaas Baster is described on <a href="https://books.google.be/books?id=MMVJAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA160#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank">p.160</a>:"At last, we reached the place where Jantie had seen the herd; but since the morning it had moved away: we saw it passing in the distance on the ridge of a hill. I went right to the shepherds, who told us, indeed, that they were from the horde of Klaas Baster, and one of them offered to take me to him.The coming of a company like mine, was made to frighten the horde. I thought, when reaching it, that I noticed some movement of concern and surprise; but I soon had it appeased by making all my people halt, and despatching Klaas to it with the shepherd who had come with us. I charged them to say on my behalf to Baster that I brought him a letter from Colonel Gordon, our mutual friend; that I was, like him, a traveller curious to visit the country.At that name of Gordon, fears vanished; soon I saw arriving, with my ambassador, a mulatto of very good look, accompanied by another, but smaller and of lesser appearance. The first was Klaas Baster, the other was named Piet. They were brothers."</blockquote>