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ftones ; and neither we nor our dogs durft retU 
ture to approach him. I wiftied to put an end 
to his torment, by firing one more ball, and 
was making preparations for the pnrpofe, 
when my people entreated me to defift. As 
I conid not afcribe their requeft to fentiments 
of pity, I was at a lofs to conceive what could 
be their motive* 
I have already faid, that all the favage tribes, 
and even the people at the Cape and in the 
colonies, fet a high value on the dried blood 
of the rhinoceros, to which they afcribe great 
virtues in the cure of certain diforders, and 
which they confider, in particular, as a fove- 
reign remedy for obflrudions. The reader 
will recoiled:, that when Swanepoel, intoxicated 
by Pinar, fell under the wheels of my carriage, 
and had one of his ribs broken, he alked me 
for the blood of the rhinoceros ; but, as none 
of it could be had, he drank fome brandy in 
its ftead. Nature alone effeded a cure ; but 
he afcribed it to the liquor, and acknowledged 
that this remedy, equally proper^ he faid, for 
the fick and the found, was preferable to the 
other. His companions, however, had retained 
their prepoflefFion 3 and they were determined 
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