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supposed that he had gone to seek honey, with which 
the rocks in this neighbourhood abounded ; and we 
reached the farmer’s dwelling early in the afternoon, 
without having seen or heard of him. On the arri- 
val, however, of the herdsman with the sheep some 
hours afterwards, he brought us the melancholy 
intelligence that the waggon, as he supposed, must 
have gone over the poor boy’s head, and killed him 
on the spot, as he had found the body lying in the 
track, with the head crushed and dreadfully swollen. 
I was much affected by this distressing cireum- 
stance, which tended to increase the depression 
of spirits my indisposition had induced, and it was 
long ere I’ recovered the shock of that unhappy 
accident. 
On the following day we reached the farm of 
Stoffel Jacobs, where I remained nearly a week to 
recruit my strength, a measure the more necessary, 
as the weather continued excessively hot, and I had 
still a long journey to accomplish. I was lamenting 
to Jacobs how little I had added to my specimens 
of natural history on this excursion, when he said 
that I should not leave his house until he had 
procured for me a female gems-bok, Antilope oryx, 
which I had been very desirous to obtain. His 
sons were accordingly dispatched to the plain with 
‘Instructions, if they could find any of these ante- 
Jopes, to use their endeavours to turn them in the 
direction of the farm. They had not been gone 
