loi TRAVELS IN 
fends every year a detachment to the ifle of 
Roben, to kill fea cows and penguins, from 
which an oil is extraded, particularly from 
the latter : they furnifli a great deal. At the 
point of Roben there is a fmall creek, in which 
a vefTel might find fhelter, if the fouth-eaft 
w^inds fhould prevent her from reaching the 
roads at the Gape. 
When I quitted Europe to travel Into Afri- 
ca, it was not a part of my plan to enter into 
any detail refpefting the manners and cuftoms 
of the inhabitants of the Cape, much lefs re- 
ipe£ting the political, civil, and military forms 
of its government. This is a fubjedt, I con- 
fefs, which engaged the leaft fhare of my at- 
tention, and which I fhould give an account 
of with the greateft reludance, even were I 
bles that of a quail, and its bill that of a hen. It has only 
three toes on each foot, like the buflard. Its head, back, 
and wipgs, are of a brownifh yellow, diverfified with black 
and white ; its breail, belly, and thighs are of a paler colour, 
inclining to white; and its legs and feet are of an afli colour. 
It is accounted very delicious eating. See a defcription and ' 
figure of it in BriJJon's Ornithology^ under the name of the 
lejfer hujiard* See alfo D'i5liQn7iaWe Raifonne et Univerfel 
des Animaux^ under the articles canard d>e pre de France^ and 
can^petiere, T. 
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