AFRICA. Ill 
and ridiculous anecdotes ; and amufed him with 
information until they had drained his bottles. 
In this manner are new difcoveries made, and 
thus is the progrefs of the human mind en- 
larged ! 
JOURNEY TO THE EAST OF THE CAPS, 
THROUGH THE COUNTRY OF NATAL 
AND THAT OF CAFFRARIA. 
THE different preparations for my jour- 
ney being now completed, I ordered all 
the fcattered provifions to be colleded. They 
were indeed pretty confiderable; for in that firfi: 
cffervefcence which tranfports the imagination 
beyond the ordinary bounds, I neither knew 
nor had fet myfelf any limits. Refolved, on 
the contrary, to proceed as far and as long as I 
poffibly could, I knew not whether I fhould ever 
have it in my power to return ; but I wilhed 
above all to guard againft the difagreeable dit 
appointment of being obliged to ftop, through 
the want of things abfolutely requifite. Even 
to 
