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chace confided in making the antelopes entet 
between the two rows of iiakes; once there^ 
they were eafily driven into the defile where 
the pits were dug. Such as paiTed over thefe 
pits without tumbling in fell into other ambuf- 
cades, where the people of the horde waited 
for them^ lying flat on their bellies, to (hoot 
them with, their arrows the moment they 
iffued from the defile. 
The whole of the day was employed lit 
conveying to the place and ereding the ap- 
paratus I have defcribed ; and the next day, 
at three in the morning, we fet off for the 
rendezvous. As it was at fome diftance, we 
did not arrive there till break of day. I 
mounted one of my horfes, and Klaas ano- 
ther; and 1 was followed by fome of my 
hunters, and all my dogs in their leafhes^ 
Several of the favages of the horde remaiaed 
with me, while the reft placed themftlver. in 
ambufcade along the palifadcvS, to prevent the 
antelopes from leaping over. 
As the fun was rifing we perceived, about 
half a league from us, a confiderable herd of 
fpring-bocks chafed by a party of the favages. 
I direded my people to advance in file along 
one 
