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peared to be very well fatisfied with this 
circumftance ; for, whllft they were marchuig 
forward, they fed whenever they chofe, with- 
out having the trouble of bending down 
their heads to the earth. We had always 
in our view antelopes of different kinds, par- 
ticularly that called the fpring-hoch My 
dogs fprung a buftard, which I killed ; it 
will form a new fpecies, never before de- 
fcribed, larger than the French field-duck 
of Europe: the plumage of its neck before, 
and that of the breaft and belly, is of an uni- 
form blueifh grey colour ; all the upper part 
of the body has a reddifli tint, fpotted and 
ftriped with a colour almoft black ; and its 
voice has a great refemblance to that of the 
toad, but it is ftronger. \ 
We continued our journey In this man- 
ner for five hours, under an exceffive heat, 
which obliged us to halt. We were, it 
is true, almoft continually fheltered by the 
.trees, which grew very clofely together; but 
the leaves of the mimofa are fo fmall, and fo 
thinly fcattered, that its fiiade, which never 
darkens the place where it falls, may almoft 
be accounted as nothing. We found no other 
in the whole plain ; and I obfcrved that the 
beautiful 
