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continued, this leaping ceafed not a moment * 
and never did I witnefs a fped:acle fimilar lo 
what was aiforded by thefe thoufands of ani- 
mals, running hke the wind, and half of them 
at a time in the air. 
Some were killed by our fliot, fome by our 
dogs, and others ftifled in the throng; but 
thirty-feven only were found in the pits ; and 
even mod of thefe were in the firft holes. 
The Nimiquas alfo had wounded feveral with 
their poifoned arrows ; and, though thefe fled 
av/ay with the reft, they hoped foon to find 
them. 
This hunt did not at all ftrike me as being 
very fuccefsful. Confidering, indeed^ the pre- 
parations that were made, and the quantity of 
game we faw, 1 even thought it a bad one. 
The people, how^evcr, w^ere of a different 
ODinion, and told me that fo wonderful a 
one had not been knovv^n in the memory of 
man. 
They commonly deemed themfelves fortu- 
nate if they procured a -dozen antelopes. Fre- 
quently they had even the vexation not to gee 
more than a fingle one; which happened fome- 
times when the herd was fmall, or when, the 
number 
