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proved to be. I reserve the horrid story for that part of my journal 
to which it properly belongs ; but I cannot without shuddering, re- 
flect how often my life has been in his hands ; nor remember without 
gratitude, the protection of Providence, which shielded me during my 
travels, from the many dangers, both seen and unseen, to which I 
have been exposed. This miscreant was he whom we have called 
Old Daniel. 
15th. From so irregular a mode of passing their time, my people 
fell into a neglect of, or rather an inattention to, the only duty 
required of them during our stay ; and I was therefore not sur- 
prised at being told that all the oxen were missing. I despatched 
men in parties, to seek in different directions ; and it was not till the 
seventh day of their search, that all were recovered. One of these 
animals, influenced by its long habits of sleeping by the waggons and 
of lying down to rest near our fires and in the society of men, 
returned home of its own accord : the rest were at last discovered at 
a distant place, grazing in company with a large herd belonging to 
the village. 
On one of the days while the men were engaged in this search, 
one party was sent to explore the mountains ; and, as tigers were 
said to haunt those places, they took the dogs with them for safety. 
Baboons * are also met with here in great numbers ; and unfortunately 
the dogs, through a natural antipathy to this tribe of animals, pursued 
a small company, which turned upon them, and defended themselves 
most effectually. They killed one of the dogs on the spot, by biting- 
it through the jugular artery ; and another, they severely disabled by 
tearing a large piece of flesh out of its side j so that, a part of the 
ribs was laid bare. 
18^^. In the preceding fortnight, the weather had been dry and 
* Cercopithecus tirsmus. I have taken the specific name from Pennant, as beuig suf- 
ficiently characteristic, but have not perceived the necessity for adopting the generic name 
of Cynocejphalus proposed by Cuvier. In this, I am supported by the opinion of the 
learned lUiger, who says " Anne genus Cercopithecorum cum sequente (Cynocephalo- 
rum) jungendum." Prod. Syst. Mamm., p. 69. 
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