BUSHMEN AND VULTURES. Pal 
breaking out of their yoke. Many of them re- 
mained in the water for a considerable time, as if 
reluctant to leave it, and one in particular never re- 
covered the excess in which it indulged. 
Some Bushmen, having observed our arrival from 
the opposite bank, swam across to us on the follow- 
ing morning. After witnessing with much astonish- 
ment my operations in preparing, as a zoological spe- 
cimen, the skin of the gems-bok, which I had shot 
on the previous day, they evinced the greatest eager- 
ness to possess themselves of the flesh. , No objection 
being made to their removing the fragments, which 
they regarded as a valuable prize, although by this 
time almost in a state of putrefaction, they speedily 
constructed a raft for conveying their treasure to the 
other side of the river. <A large assemblage of dis- 
appointed vultures and other carrion birds followed 
closely in their train, thus indicating the course they 
pursued, after the party had crossed the stream, and 
were hidden from our view by the intervening 
bushes. A vulture, allured by the scent of the flesh 
which the Bushmen had left behind them, venturing 
too near our encampment, fell a sacrifice to my gun, 
and shortly after Jacob brought me its fellow. They 
proved to be the Vautour Chincou of Vaillant, and 
were the only specimens I ever met with. 
On the 16th I had the tent taken down, and 
pitched under the willow-trees which skirt the banks 
of this splendid river as far as the eye can reach, 
