iS4 TRAVELS IN 
from my own principles, and manner of be-* 
having to the favages, I could not allow my- 
felf to think that I was in any danger from 
either of them. My hours, the pleafures and 
occupations of which I continually varied, 
rolled on like the paft, without trouble and 
without uneafinefs, I had begun my hunt- 
ing excurfions, and my guefts followed me 
in turns ; but I chofe to be accompanied, in 
preference to any other, by my young CafFre, 
who afforded me the fatisfaftion of feeing 
fojuetimes a gnou fall by his hand, and 
fometimes other animal?, which he killed 
with his formidable aflagay with as much 
dexterity as he had ihewn in piercing the 
Iheep. In one of our hunting parties he af- 
lifled me to kill a male hippopotamus of an 
extraordinary fize; it was the only one we 
had met with, and perhaps the oply one to be 
found in the compafs of ten miles: the firing 
of our fufees, which thundered on all fides 
from morning till night, had undoubtedly 
frightened all the reft. I did not find in 
this one that flavour which had giyen me fa 
much pleafure in the firft female I killed. 
My people pretended that it was too old; and 
that, befideSj a female was always fuperior in 
delicacy. 
