104 VOYAGE IN SEARCH 



it a long time with his other paw. If monkies 

 know how to proportion punifhment to guilt, the 

 little ape's crime muft have been very great, 

 for it was feverely beaten. 



The olive blackbird of the Cape of Good 

 Hope, the hunting, the flarling of the Cape, 

 fomc wood-peckers, &c. were the birds which I 

 found molt common on this fhort journey. 



The near approach of the period of our de- 

 parture from the Cape obliged us to leave 

 Franche-Hoek much fooner than we could have 

 wifhed. We were fo anxious to proceed to the 

 town, that we took our live of the worthy 

 Jacob de Villjers on the 14th, at ten o'clock at 

 night, and immediately fet out on our return. 

 We travelled all night, and did not arrive at the 

 town the next day till the fame hour, having 

 followed the road by Paarl-Berg and Paarde- 

 Berg. This walk could not but be fatiguing to 

 perfons, who for feveral days had fcarcely taken 

 any reft; and indeed one of the fervants belong- 

 ing to the Efperance, Emard Serpoy, who had 

 accompanied us from his fondnefs for fhooting, 

 was fo overpowered by drowfinefs in the middle 

 of the night, that he was obliged to fleep in the 

 road for half an hour, before he could continue 

 to follow us. Although this man was very 

 flout, the want of reft had fo completely ab- 

 forbed all h'rs faculties, that it would have been 



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