A f R I C A. |iy 
My firft thought was, that they had been 
difcovered by fome of the horde, and facrificed 
to their fufpicion ; but, on approaching nearer, 
I was quickly undeceived.. The lower j^aw of 
one was bruifed, broken, and almoft all torn 
away. The fragments that ftill remained^ 
and his tongue which was expofed to view, 
liung bleeding on his neck and breaft. He 
was abfolutely dying, and afforded no other 
fign of life than the beating of his pulfe. But 
the prodigious fwelling of his head, the dread- 
ful alteration of his face, and the ftarting of 
the eyes from their orbits, had fo disfigured 
him, that he no longer retained a human coun- 
tenance, and exhibited a fight that while it 
rended my heart was difgufting to behold. 
His comrade had many bites or lacerations 
on the body, and one arm broken, or rather 
ground to pieces, in two places. His con- 
dition, however, was by no means fo bad as 
the other, and he could even fp^ak. 
We interrogated him refpeding the caufe 
of their difafter, and he informed us, that, 
after we had left him, they had extinguiflied 
their fire, that they might not be difcovered 
by the Bofhmen ; and having fallen afleep at 
a little 
