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inerous progeny, a peaceful reign, and that 
the women might be more fubmiffive, I fet 
cut at break of day, to avoid the heat, and pro- 
ceeded on nly journey, with an intention of 
halting on the banks of a river five leagues 
diftant from the horde, where, according to 
the account of my guides, I fhould find as 
inany rhinocerofes as I might wifli. The na* 
lives call this river FiJIo-River. 
Though we had marched only a few hours, 
I remarked, in the fmall fpace we traverfed, 3t 
great change in the produdlions. On all fides 
I beheld different plants and different animals 5 
and this novelty aftoniihed me fo much, that 
i refolved to flop fome time, in order to fearch 
for and colleCt fuch curious objeds as might 
be worthy of my attention. There are fome 
Vegetables and animals to which nature feems 
to have exclufively affigned certain climates^ 
and which are to be found no where elfe^ 
Thus, for example, I did not begin to find gi- 
raffes till I arrived at the twenty-eighth degree 
of latitude ; and it was only under the twenty- 
fifth that I found a kind of wild afs, of an 
ifabella or pale- yellow colour. 
This animal is, by the Greater Nimiquas, 
Vol. III. D calle* 
