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304. TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 
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 faéts. 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 reflect no 
particular honour upon himfelf, nor the difbelieving it 
any fort of difgrace in the minds of liberal and unpreju- 
diced men. It is for thefe only he would with to write, 
and thefe are the only perfons who can profit from his nar- 
rative. Dawe 
Tuz Agageers having procured as much meat as would 
maintain them a long time, could not be perfuaded to con- 
tinue the hunting any longer. Part of them remained 
with the fhe~elephant, which feemed to be the fatteft.; tho’ 
the one they killed firft was by much the moft valuable, on 
account of its long teeth. It was {till alive, nor did-it feem 
an eafy operation to kill it, without the affiftance of our 
Agageers, even though it was totally helplefs, except with 
its trunk. 
"We fought about forthe buffaloes and rhinocerofes; but 
though there was plenty of both in the neighbourhood, 
we could not find them; our noife and {hooting in the 
morning having probably fcared 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 fhade 
of trees. Here we faw them feparate the great tecth of 
the elephant from the head, by roafting the jaw-bones on 
the fire, till the lower, thin, and hollow part of the teeth — 
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