6o TRAVELS IxM 
belllfhed it> had been refpeded hj all the ani- 
mals of the diftrid, and feemed defended even 
by its beauty. 
This wonderful objed, which I had dlf- 
covered, ftruck me fo powerfully, as to occupy 
my whole attention. All my plans of hunt- 
ing were now foz'gotten ; I gave peace to the 
birds of which I was in purfuit ; and thought 
of nothing but the means of procuring my 
beautiful lily. 
This, however, v/as a matter of Tome diffi- 
culty. I had neither inflruments proper for 
digging up the earth without damaging it, 
nor a bafl^et, or other veffel of the like kind, to 
hold it. To go to my waggons, in quefl: or 
what I wanted^ would have been to abandon 
it 5 and I fliould have perhaps expofed it to 
a danger it never before experienced. Under 
this embarrafTment, and unwilling to lofe fight 
of it, I refolved to fire feveral fliots, in order 
to call to my affiftance feme of my people. 
On this fignal of alarm, feveral of them 
haftened towards me. They imagined me ex:- 
pofed to fome danger, and were furprifed to 
fee ir e in ecHacy before a flower. I fent to 
my camp for fome iron tools, and a bafl^et 
like 
