488 TRAVELS IN AFRICA; 
effeds to Amfterdam without delay; where, 
the moment I arrived, I hafteiied tQ throw 
myfelf into the arms of my' good friends, 
Boers and Temminck* A few days after, I 
» fet oS for Paris, where I arrived in the begin- 
ning of January 1 785, after an abfence of five 
years : the only period of my Hfe truly to be 
regretted, the only one at leaft in which the 
cowardice of mankind never aflfeded me, in 
which I could fafely defy their injuftice, their 
benefits, and their tyrannic fway. 
END OF THE THIRD AND LAST VOLUME- 
The celebrated traveller Le Vaillaot, who retently died at 
^>Sazanne, was born at Saramajbo, in Dutch OuyanA. His 
«4 taste for natural history displayed itself early in life, and 
(J^ induced him to undertake two voyages to the Cape of Good 
V Hope. The sciences are also indebted to him for useful and 
valuable discoveries in the interioir of AfVica and Ameflca. 
The cabinet of natural history at Paris possesses his 
Jcamelopard, and his rich collection of stuffed parrots and 
Ijirds of Paradise. He has left in literature his two voyages 
S to the Cape of Good Hope, and the natural history of African 
--Jl, and American birds, birds of Paradise, and parrots. 
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