45^ TRAVELS IN 
reception, that I Xpent the night under hl$ 
roof. 
At my departure I was defirous of recom- 
penfing his kindnefs: but, not contented 
with refufing every token of acknowledge- 
ment, he would give my people a loaf and a 
quarter of mutton, to ferve them on their- 
journey ; and as for myfelf, obferving that I 
ate fcarcely any thing but butter, he ordered 
fome frefh to be made, and infifted on my ac- 
cepting a pot of it, 
I returned to the mountains, becaufe, being 
able from their fummits to difcover the Ele- 
phants- River, at which my caravan ought by 
this time to have arrived, I fhould the better 
know how to direvS my courfe. Our march 
continued ftill three days longer, without af- 
fording any thing to intereft me, but a night 
fpent near a beautiful fpring that abounded 
with the ffirub on which grows the fruit called 
in that country we/f^s-gift (wolf's poifon). 
This name is derived from the property 
pofTefTed by the fruit, when roafted, of poi- 
foning any carnivorous animals that may eat 
of it. It is prepared like coffee, ground ia 
the fame manner, and the powder is then 
ftrewe^ 
