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pafturage having fuffered lefs in this way, I 
fliould neceffarily find a better fupply. 
Impatient as I was to reach the Cape, this 
circuit, which would coft me feveral days 
inarch, was extremely agalnft my will : but 
neceflity compelled me to fubmit to it. In 
two days I arrived in Verloore-Va^ey^ which I 
found to be an extenfive lake, feparated from 
the fea by a narrow border of fandy downs. 
The lake and its banks being covered with 
birds of every kind, I flattered myfelf I fliould 
find fom^ for my colledion that would recom- 
penfe me for the length of the road. In fad, 
I faw there not only all the birds that I had 
met with on Green-River, but alfo the coot 
of Europe, different fpecies of grebes, particu- 
larly that called by naturalifts the horned grebe, 
and a particular fpecies of penguin. 
This bird has a creft of long narrow feathers 
covering its eyes and the fides of ita head, and 
this creft it can ereft and lower at will. The 
fame fpecies is found about the ftraits of Ma-* 
gellan, where it was feen by the celebrated 
Bougainville, who gave it the name of hop- 
ping penguin. Buffon gives a fhort defcrip- 
tion of it under the fame name, and afterwards 
figures 
