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‘tance. This was the firft fample we had of lel bad 
~weather. 
Tue river fcarcely ran at our pafling it; when, all on a 
fudden, we heard a noife on the mountains above, louder 
than the loudeft thunder. Our guides, upon this, flew to 
' the baggage, and removed it to the top of the green hill ; 
which was no fooner done, than we faw the river coming 
down in a ftream about the height of a man, and breadth 
of the whole bed it ufed to occupy... The water was thick 
tinged with red earth, and ran in the form of a deep river, 
and {welled a little above its banks, but did not reach our 
ftation on the hull. 
An antelope, furprifed by the torrent, and I believe burt 
by it, was forced over into the peninfula where we were, 
feemingly in great diftrefs. As foon as my companions faw 
there was no further danger from the river, they furround- 
ed this innocent comrade in misfortune, and put him to 
death with very little trouble to themfelves. The acquifi- 
tion was not great; it was lean, had a mufky tafte, and was 
worfe meat than the goat we had bought from the Shiho. 
The torrent, though now very fenfibly diminifhed, full pre- 
ferved a current till next morning. 
Berwern Hamhammou and Shillokeeb we firft faw the 
dung of elephants, full of pretty thick pieces of indigefted 
branches. We likewife, in many places, {aw the tracks thro’ 
which they had paffed; fome trees were thrown down from 
the roots, fome broken in the middle, and branches half- 
eaten ftrewed on the ground. 
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