AFRICA. 2^ 
related only events that were known to me» 
their uncultivated minds interlarded them with 
fuch extraordinary remarks and circumftances, 
embellifhed them with fuch fublime and extra- 
vagant poetical figures, and gave them fuch a 
new and whimfica! air, that I fancied myfelf 
liftening to fabulous narrations. Never before 
had I tafted a fimilar pleafure, and I frankly 
confefs that this was one of the moft plcafing 
nights that either of my journeys afforded. 
At fun- rife, vv^hen every one retired to fleep, 
I took my gun, and went to try my fuccels in 
the neighbourhood. 1 found nothing to add 
to my colledion; but chance afforded me an 
extraordinary fhot, fuch as perhaps no other 
fportfman can boaft. 
I was fitting at the foot of a tree, with my 
double-barrelled gun betv^een my legs ftraight 
before me, the butt-end refling on the ground, 
and my finger on the trigger. In the other 
hand I held a leaf, on the edge of which I was 
whiftling in the manner of fowlers when 
they wifh to draw round them fmall birds. 
A fpecies of red-breaft came and pitched boldly 
on my hat, thence hopped to the mouth of my 
fufee, and, fetting one foot on each barrel, re- 
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