AFRICA, 2l5i 
continue to give it the name of ifabcUa zebra, 
till foine more fortunate traveller may beftow 
on it another appellation. 
I did not quit the horde without taking 
guides. They conduded me, by a journey of 
feven or eight leagues, to the dry bed of a perio- 
dical river, on the banks of which they left 
me, and which they affured me was that Lion- 
River, which I had crofled farther to the eaft 
at my firft departure. If it be difficult in 
Africa to be certain of the courfe of a flov/ing 
river, it is ftill more fo to afcertaln that of one 
that is dry, I have trufted to the favages for 
the name of this, and I have laid it down in my 
map on their authority. I much doubt, hov/- 
ever, its being the fame river: but it may 
poffibly be another to which the appellation 
of Lion has been given as, in fadl, In that 
part of Africa there are many brooks or rivers 
that bear this denomination. Befides, it is 
enough for a planter to meet with a lion, an 
elephant, a buffalo, or any other animal, on the 
bank of a river, to give it immediately its 
name. Thus it is we find at the Cape of 
Good Hope feveral Elephant- Rivers, Buffalo- 
Rivers, and Lion-Rivers, as \nqI\ as many 
