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died about twenty yards diftance; but ali the reft that could 
efcape fled without looking back, or fhewing any kind of 
refentment: I then took my mufquet in my hand, and 
ftood, prepared with my bayonet, behind the tree, but fired 
no more, not knowing what their humour or difpofition 
_ might be as to a return upon acceflion of new compani- 
ons. — P 
Asour twenty fmall foxes, and a flock of feveral hun- — 
dred Guinea-fowls, now came up from the infide of the 
pool. The fowls lighted immediately, and ran back again 
to the water. The foxes retired quickly into the woods. 
Whether they had affembled witha view of getting a fhare 
of the deer, an animal of this kind being bedi attendant 
upon the lion, or whether, as is moft likely, they were 
feeking the Guinea-fowls, I do not know. I fufpect it» 
was the latter, by their number; for never more than one 
at a time is remarked to accompany the lion, 
‘We obferved a variety of traps and cages, fome of them 
very ingenious, which the Daveina, or other Arabs, had fet 
to catch thefe birds, feveral of which we found dead in 
thefe fmares, and fome of them had not yet been touched 
by beafts; and as there was but a fmall diftance between 
the traps and the water’s edge, which could only be an- 
fwerable to a few days evaporation, we with great rea- 
fon inferred, that the Daveina, or fome other Arabs, had 
been there a very fhort time before. We found in the mud 
of the pool large green fhell-fnails, with the animals alive in 
them ; fome’of them weighed very near a pound, in no- 
thing, but fize and thicknefs of the Le different from 
common garden-{nails. 
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