6 TRAVELS IN • 
the number of thirty men and women, and 
brought with them fom,e oxen to carry back 
the provifions I had offered them. They palled 
the night with me ; and, next morning, hav- 
ing caufed then* oxen to be loaded, I fet out 
with them for their horde, acrofs a fcorched 
plain, the drieft, perhaps, of all thofe I ha4 
yet traverfed. 
I every where obferved giraffes ; but, In a 
fpace fo extenfive, they had too much advan-^ 
tage over us ; and, as I defpaired of being able 
to get near them, I did not fo much as think 
of purfuing them. Having, however, feen a 
rhinoceros, which, by the heavinefs of his 
flight, feemed likely to iofe ground, I refolved 
to hunt him, and fet put accordingly with 
Klaas. We galloped forwards full fpeed, and 
had got w4thin ihot, when the horfe on which 
Klaas was mounted, faddenly ftumbling, fell 
down, and threw him over his head to the 
diftance of more than ten feet. By the effeds 
of the fall, his fufee went otFat the fame time ; 
and it w^as only by the explofion that I was 
informed of the accident. 
I was then at about the diftance of a hundred 
and fifty yards in a ftraight line before him. 
I haftene4 
