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With our pro vifions and leather bottles, we had 
for ourfelves a fufficient fupply for this fatiguing 
journey ; but it was necefiary that our cattle 
fliould accomplifh it vvrithout perhaps either eat- 
ing or drinking. Cattle in Europe, if condemned 
thus to fall for tv/odays under a fcorching fun, 
in a march of twenty-four leagues, and through 
a horrid defert, would undoubtedly perifh ; but 
ours, accuftomed to long and frequent fatigue, 
were capable of fupporting it. However, to 
prepare them by a little reft, I remained en- 
camped two days ; and employed the time in 
hunting excurfions, in which we killed fe- 
veral coudou antelopes and a female elephant, 
which furnifhed us with abundance of pro- 
vifion. 
On the day appointed, we fet out early In 
the morning, and did not halt till nine in the 
evening. My cattle, as I expeded, had found 
by the way no water, and very little grafs ; 
and, after fo laborious a journey, it v^^as ne- 
cefiary that they fliould ftill pafs the night 
without food. 
With regard to ourfelves, the Houzouanas 
had been fo provident as to fill all my leather 
|)Ottles with water found among the rocks ; but, 
5 having 
