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from the truth; to believe what I here affert 
one muft have feen their paffage. We marched 
in the midfl: of them, yet they feemed not to 
be in the leaft deranged ; and they were fo 
tame that I killed three of them without 
quitting my carriage: it would have been 
very eafy for us, had there been occalion for 
it, to procure as many as would have fup- 
plied proviiions for a long time to 'innume- 
rable armies. In fhort, the retreat of thefe 
antelopes foretold, with m.ore certainty than 
thtLiege Almanack^ that approaching drought 
which we had every reafon to expedt. 
Having refumed our journey on the morn- 
ing of the 6th, in going up the Birds river, 
which has its fource in the fnow mountains, 
an accident, that might have been attended 
with very ferious confequences, flopped us 
for fome time. The clothes of the perfon 
who drove one of my carriages having caught 
hold of fome prickles of the mimofa, which 
he did not obferve, while he was endeavour- 
ing to place himfelf in his feat he fell down, 
and as the waggon advanced the wheel 
went over his leg. I inflantly ran up to him, 
and I was exceedingly happy to find, after a 
minute examination, that there was no frac- 
ture. 
