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brellas, an increafe of our fufFerings. Owing 
either to the adion of the exceffive heat, or to 
the efFed of the climate or the faline duft, 
we were feized with frequent bleedings at 
the nofe and intolerable pains in the head, 
A fever, which feemed to accompany thefe 
fymptoms, brought on, what my Hottentots 
had never experienced, and what I alfo felt for 
the firft time, a confufion of fight and giddi- 
nefs, or rather a real delirium. We thought 
we faw before us waggons, towns or kraals, 
numerous flocks, and, in fliort, a thoufand 
different objeds, which changed their form 
and produced others, in proportion as we ad- 
vanced. 
A remarkable circumftance, which fillei 
us with alarm, and made us fenfible of the 
danger of our fituation, was, that none of 
us faw the fame thing ; and that what to one 
was a mountain was a river to another. Soon, 
however, we learned to miftruft thefe fan- 
taftical vifions ; and, being affured by expe- 
rience that they were only imaginary, we no 
longer believed in their reality. 
The effed, indeed, was not unremitted. At 
fome moments it entirely ceafed, and permitted 
our 
