44S TRAVELS IN 
fowls of all kinds, particularly pelicans, flamin- 
goes, and wild geefc. I alfo met with the night- 
heron, the crefted purple heron, the common 
lieron, and the black ftork, all cxadlj fimilar' 
to thofe of Europe, 
The dead elephants procured me feveral 
birds of prey. I conftruded within fhot of 
their carcafes a little arbour, in which I con- 
cealed myfelf to lie in wait for fuch birds as 
fiiould come to feed on them. From morning 
till night they alighted by hundreds, and I 
killed fuch as appeared to me to deferve the 
preference. 
During my refidence at Green-River, I 
changed my encampment feveral times, and 
thus travelled over a fpace of eight or ten 
leagues on its banks. At length I quitted 
them, and gained thofe of the Swarte-Doorn 
(Black-Thorn), at the very place where I met 
Pinar for the lirft lime. I fpent the night 
there, and the next day bent my courfe to- 
wards the mountains to the fouth. The road 
•was terrible for my waggons. After a la- 
borious march of fix hours, we arrived at 
the foot of a chain of arid mountains, the 
bare and rufty rocks of which, pidurefquely 
lieaped 
