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tv'iiHe they v/ere kept awake by their fears, I 
retired to my tent to fleep in tranquilli*"y. 
This anxious night ferved but to increafe 
their impatience to return home. Had I 
liftened to them, I fhould have fet off the next 
morning the fliorteft way to my camp at 
Orange-River. But I had not yet forgotten 
the pleafant days I had fpent on the upper part 
of this river, and I was not defirous of quitting 
fo haftily the banks of a flream, near which I 
had procured fo many birds for my colletStion, 
and the water and paftures of which could alone 
recover my cattle from the fatigue they had 
undergone I was reiolved, therefore, to follow 
its courfe for fome time ; and the very next 
day 1 fpcnt fix hours in tracing its wind- 
ings. 
This excurfion afforded me feveral new fpe- 
cies of birds, and particularly a variety of the 
touraco, different from that which I faw in 
the Auteniqua country. The fucceedine days 
were equally fortunate, and added alike to 
xny pleafures, my acquifitions, and my dif- 
coveries. 
In one of my hunts I killed a monftrous 
boar, altogether different from any known fpe- 
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