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nic exaggeration ; but, as it was eafy for me to 
afcenain the truth of it, and as it afforded me 
the hopes of learning fomething, perhaps, that 
I did not know, I confented to make a trial. 
Next morning, as fbon as it was day, the 
$:Jiief fent out fifty men to track on the hills 
;ind eminences fituated on the fouth fide of 
%hc horde. About noon^ one of them returned 
to give notice, that they had driven feveral 
flocks of antelopes together ; that they now 
formed an immenfe body, moving towards the 
plain ; and that they would not fail foon to 
make their appearance. 
I immediately fet out with Haripa, who 
pofted me in a defile of the plain, through 
which, as he conjedured from the diredion 
purfiied by the tracker's, the antelopes muft 
necclTarily pafs ; and indeed we had not long 
remained in this pofition when we faw, rifing 
from the fides of the hills, clouds of duft, 
which feemed every moment to extend them- 
felves and to become larger. He then defired 
me to he down on my belly, with my face to- 
wards the ground j and in this pofture, which 
appeared to me very little proper for hunting, 
I waited the event ia filence. 
The antelopes advanced full fpeedj and did 
not 
