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and flat feeds : it is of the lize of a cherry, and 
has a crimfon colour. I fpeak here of the 
fruit of a particular fpecies of thefe plants, 
which is called the wild grape, on account 
of the great refemblance which its leaves 
have to thofe of the vine. Thefe natu- 
ral ropes will fuftain the weight of a man, 
if the branch from which they are fufpended 
be fufficiently ftrong : this cherry is excel- 
lent, and very proper for making a kind of 
fpirituous liquor ; when preferved, it is ftill 
better. I have often imitated the iavians, 
and mounted, by the help of thefe cords, to 
the fummits of the trees, to gather the fruit, 
and fometimes to colled infedls. 
Thefe woods abounded likewife with two 
fpecies of antelopes, not at all wild : the ios^ 
boc^ which I had feen in other places, and 
that called by the Hottentots noumetjes. Of 
the latter I had only a flight view in the 
country of Auteniqua; it is not uncommon, 
but it is very difficult to approach fo near it 
as to kill it. Befides this, it feldom appears 
in the plains, but keeps itfelf concealed in 
the bufhes and thickefl: parts of the forefts. 
At the utmoft it is no more than twelve or 
fifteen inches in height ; the horns of the 
male 
