_ 7'77S' ach. *1 found great relief, however, by waihing toy head- " eCembCr- to running water in great Vifcb-rivier. mT wo ot myC HT J ott.tentots likewife complained of being affedted in the fame manner, but were foon made èafy by giving them a little hemp to fmoke. I had forgot to look at the thermometer this day till ten o’clock in the evening. Even at that late hour it was at 78. At dark there fell a few drops o f rain. This night we did not hear the lions roar in the leaft. Very early oil the 2 3d we proceeded again on our journey, to look out for the fea-cows near fome other pit belonging to great Vifc>h-ri*i>ie?-. There Was now again a great fcarcity o f meat to the Waggon-; for which reafon toy Hottentots began to grumble, and reminded me, that we ought not to wafte fo much o f our titoe in looking after infedts and plants-,, but give a better look out after the game. At the fame time they pointed to a neighbouring dale over-run with wood, at the upper edge o f which, at the diftance of a mile and- a quarter from the fpot where We then were, they had feen leverai buffaloes» Accordingly we went thither, but though our fatigue was leffehed "by our Hottentots carrying our guns for US Up à Hill, yet We were quite out of breath and overcome by the heat of the fun, before we got up to it. Yet, what even how appears to me a matter of Wonder is, that as foOn àS We had got a glimpfe o f the game, all this languor left us to an inftant. In fatft, we each o f us ftrove to fire before the other, fo that we feemed entirely to have loft fight o f all prudence and caution. When we advanced to within twenty or thirty paces of the beaft, and confequentiy were, perhaps, likewife in fome degree adluated by our fears, We difeharged our our pieces pretty nearly at the fame time; while the buf- n/ffifo... falo, which was upon rather lower ground than we were, behind a thin fcambling buih, feemed to turn his head round in order to make towards us» In the mean while, however, the moment we had difeharged our guns, we had the pleafnre to fee him fall, and di.redtly afterwards run down into the thickeff part of the w(X)d» This induced us to hope, that our fhot had, proved- mortal: for which rcaibn, we had the imprudence, tp> follow him. down into the clofe thickets, where, luckily for us, we. could get no farther. We had, however^ as we found afterwards, only hit the hindmoft part o f the chine, where the balls, Which lay. at the diftance o f three inches from each other, had-been ihivered to pieces agaiuft the bones. In the mean while our temerity, which cliiefiy proceeded from hurry and ignorance, was conftdered by the Hottentots as a proof of fpirit and intrepidity hardly to be equalled ; on which account, from that inftant, they ever after appeared to entertain an infinitely higher opinion o f our courage than they had ever done before. Several o f our. Hottentots now came to us, and threw ftones down into the dale, though without fucceis, in order to find out by the bellowings o f the beaft, whither he had retired : afterwards, however, he feemed to have plucked up his courage, for he came up at laft out of the dale of his own accord to the ikirts of the wood, and placed liimfclf fo as to have a full view of us on the fpot, where we were: refting ourfelves fomewhat higher u p : his intention was, in all probability, and in the opinion of our old fportfmen,. to revenge him- felf on us, i f we had not happened to fee him in time, and
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