TRAVELS IN 
wood of very bufliy trees. This peaceful de* 
fart feemed to be favourable for my opera- 
tions, and very convenient for my carriages * 
but to convey them through buflies and 
branches vvhich crofTed each other in a thou- 
fand different diredions, appeared to be a 
work of great diPxiculty, We had, however, 
overcome obtlacles even more infurmount- 
able; and this, like all the rtil, gave way to 
our exertions. On the 19th, after much la- 
bour and fatigue, I accompliihed my defignj 
huf. I had the misfortune to lofe one of my 
bell oxen, which was driven with fo much 
violence againft one of the mlmofas that its 
.prickles penetrated the animal's bread, and 
broke in the flefli. We extraded in the heft 
manner we could all thofe which appeared, 
or which we couid lay hoh^ cf with a pair of 
pincers ^ but, as our art extendw^d no fartJigj,; 
thofe which had funk de per, and which 
we could neither lay hold of nor perceive^ 
occafioned 10 great an inflammation, tliat, 
after twenty four hours, all the confulta- 
tions of my beft phyficians ended in a refo- 
lution of putting the patient to death, which 
was immediately executed. 
Thefe woods fwarmed with touracos, 
3 which 
