24 TRAVELS IN 
fage I had an opportunity of feeing. As the 
country had nothing to induce them todefcend, 
none of them flopped. My hunting excur- 
fions, therefore, were become tirefome; and my 
colleAions did npt increafe fo much as I 
wiflied. 
With regard to the animals that were to 
fupply the confiderable confumption made 
daily by my company, I could depend neither 
on giraffes, buffaloes, nor the rhinoceros, 
which, being too wild, could not be approached. 
My whole refource, therefore, was in the an- 
telopes ; but, though I had in no part feen fo 
many, and though they wandered here in 
immenfe flocks, I found it very difficult to get 
near them. 
V/hile under this embarraffment, Haripa, 
who thought himfelf much indebted to me. 
for the prefents I had given him, and who 
from gratitude and attachment accompanied 
me every where, promifed, if I would follow 
his advice, and hunt after the Koraqua manner, 
to afford me an opportunity of killing, without 
quitting the fpot, more game than would be 
fufficient for all my company during a whole 
mQpn, This extraordinary promife appeared tp 
me 
