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and half h\gh^ is covered with dark-browa 
hair as ftifFas that of a hog. Its eyes, fituated 
very high, and level vAth the furface, give its 
face a totally different appearance from that of 
other monkeys. Swanepoel informed me, 
that he had killed this among a very con- 
fiderable number of the fame fpecies, fome of 
\vhich appeared to him much larger. 
My people had been hitherto employed, 
fince my arrival, in unloading the oxen of the 
caravan, and tranfporting my baggage acrofs 
the river on the raft. The molt important 
bufinefs remained ftill to be performed, that of 
conduding to the camp the . oxen themfelves. 
They had hoped to make them pafs the river 
byfwimming; but as the oxen had never feeii 
a river fo broad, they v^ere terrified at the 
paffage, and all refufed to attempt it. To no 
purpofe did they fend fome of my herd into 
the water before them, to encourage them by 
their example, and employ every poflible 
means, -even to blows 5 they ftill refifted. At 
length, as night drew on, they refolved to 
try w^hat appeared the lau refource. 
A little higher up the river was a holme, 
which divided it into two branches ; and it 
: U 4 might 
