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We were obliged to pafs through a kind 
of wood, in which the mimofas were fo nu- 
merous, fo thick, and fo encumbered with 
buflies, that we could fcarcely proceed ten 
fteps without being obliged to flop in order 
to force our way, which impeded us much^ 
efpecially as our oxen continually turned 
from one fide to the other to fearch for a 
pafTage. We however at length got clear of 
this tedious foreft ; but I am perfuaded that, 
after fo much fatigue, and fo many turnings 
and windings, which continued for the fpace 
of three hours, we were not more than a 
league from Kees-fountain. Before us we 
had a thicket almoft like that which we 
paffed ; and, in order to avoid it, we made a 
turn round, purfuing our courfe in a direc- 
tion more to the fouth-vveft. 
Covered with fweat and duft, and opprell- 
ed by heat, after marching more than fix 
hours, we flopped on the banks of a lake, 
which luckily happened to be in our way. 
One of my dogs, which had heated himfelf 
very much by running after game, was here 
in great danger of periiliing; and I Ihould 
have indeed loft him, had it not been for 
Jan, who, perceiving him in the water, in- 
ftantly 
