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for half an hour Iongerj> not one of them 
ilirred or appeared- Tired of this fatigoiog 
employ men tj I fired feveral times into the 
tree at random, and had the pleafure of fee- 
ing two more fall ; while a third, which was 
only wounded, fufpended itfelf by its tail 
from a fmall branch : another difcharge 
brought this one down alfo ; and, being fatif^ 
fied with my fpoil^ I colleded my four apes^ 
and fet out to return to my camp, Wlien I 
had got to a certain diilance from the tree^, I 
faw the whole troop, which, imagining that 
I was now too far from them to do any exe- 
cution, defcended with precipitation, and 
haftened towards the thickeft part of the 
woods, fending forth loud cries. By fome 
ftragglers, which with difficulty followed 
the reft, halting either on one of the hind or 
fore feet, I concluded that feveral of them 
had been wounded by my fhot ; but in this 
precipitate flight I did not obferve, as fome 
travellers have faid, that thofe unhurt affifted 
the lame ones, by taking them up on their 
fhoulders, in order that their common re-» 
treat might not be retarded : and I am of 
opinion that, in this refpeft, when attacked, 
they are like the Hottentots^ whofe atten- 
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