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I had hoped that thefe excurfions would rc- 
compcnfe me by new acquifitions, and that I 
fliould find among the birds that inhabited the 
woods fome addition to my colleftion. But 
I was difappointed. The time of their paflage 
was over; and the great and little bee-eaters, 
varieties of fwallows and other fpecies, had all 
difappeared. 
Another remark which I made while In this 
part of Africa I confider as too important to 
be omitted. The moment the hurricane from 
the fouth-eaft, of which I have fpoken above, 
had ceafed, the wind veered to the north, 
where it conftantly remained, with a few va- 
riations only to the two neighbouring points, 
north by weft, and north by eaft. Occafionally 
we had a few iliowers, but fo flight that they 
fcarcely wetted the fand. The Iky, however, 
had continued gloomy and overfliadowed, 
llie wind driving before it numerous clouds, 
which proceeded to accumulate on the moun- 
tains of Camis, and prepare the rainy feafoi^ 
for the Cape. 
This feafon had already commenced In the 
mountains to the north, where the Orange 
takes Its fource. At lead this river, fince I 
croired 
