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a kloof between two of the copjes, robed in a scarlet 

 blanket, and provided with one of his people's 

 primitive Jew's-harps, there to contort himself in 

 such a manner as would be certain to attract 

 the attention of the beasts sought after, while 

 I, by making a detour, came up the back of 

 one of these hillocks, that overlooked the conies' 

 retreats. 



The part of the programme I had undertaken was 

 very fatiguing, from the rough and irregular nature 

 of the ground, while the heat was as intense as the 

 interior of an oven, on account of the reflected rays 

 of the sun. But the copje was not very high, so 

 that my perseverance was rewarded ere it became 

 exhausted, and I found myself on the summit before I 

 expected. 



From my position, several hundred feet above 

 the plain, I had a grand view over a country quite 

 different from that we had lately travelled ; for 

 instead of undulating grass lands, miles and miles 

 of rough and broken ground extended north and 

 westward, making exactly such haunts as are in- 

 variably chosen by the rock-loving koodoo and klip- 

 springer. 



