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author, they would think that his having invented a lie, 

 folely for the pleafure of diverting them, was much more 

 improbable than either of the two foregoing fa6ls. He 

 places his merit in having accomplifhed thefe travels in ge- 

 neral, not in being prefent at any one incident during the 

 courfe of them ; the believing of which can refleft no 

 particular honour upon himfelf, nor the difbelieving it 

 any fort of difgrace in the minds of liberal and impreju- 

 diced men. It is for thefe only he would wifli to write, 

 and thefe are the only perfons who can profit from his nar- 

 rative. 



The Agageers having procured as much meat as would 

 maintain them a long time, could not beperfuaded to con- 

 tinue the hunting any longer. Part of them remained 

 with the fiie-elephant, which feemed to be the fattefl ; tho' 

 the one they killed firfl was by much the moft valuable, on 

 account of its long teeth. It was ftill alive, nor did it feem 

 an eafy ojieration to kill it, without the afliflance of our 

 Agageers, even though it was totally helplefs, except with 

 its trunk. 



We fought about for the buffaloes and fhinocerofes ; "but 

 though there was plenty of both in the neighbourhood, 

 we could not find them ; our noife and fliooting in the 

 morning having probably feared them away. One rhino- 

 ceros only was feen by a fervant. We returned in the 

 evening to a great fire, and lay all night under the fliade 

 of trees. Here we faw them feparate the great teeth of 

 the elephant from the head, by roafting the jaw-bones on 

 the fire, till the lower, thin, and hollow part of the teeth 

 4 were 



