AFRICA. 26j 
Mofl: of my people were fo enfeebled by 
the pleafures of every kind in which they had 
indulged during their refidence with the horde, 
that many, unable to fupport the fatigues of 
the march, remained behind at different dif- 
tances. At length the number of thefe loiter- 
ers became fo confiderable, that I was obliged 
to halt, after travelling fix leagues, in an angle 
of the mountains where the chain, altering 
its diredlon, turned to the fouth-eaft. The 
horde we had quitted had previoufly refided 
here, fo that the pafture had been eaten up ; 
and we found only the firft fhoots of the new 
grafs. 
Here, after having long ceafed to fee any 
giraffes, I met with them again for the firft 
time. My guides affured me, the farther I 
went to the wefl, the more fcarce they would 
become ; and I could eafily believe them, from 
the fmall number that appeared In the prefent 
inftance, compared with what I had feen to the 
eaft. 
On my return to the Cape, PInar told me, 
that, after we feparated, having travelled up 
Orange-River for feveral days, he had all the 
way feen giraffes, though never on the left bank; 
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