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them. This confufion, like the machinery of 
the ftage, fcarcely required a moment to be 
remedied ; I recalled my dogs, and each indi- 
vidual inftantly returned to its flock, which 
kept at a certain diftance from the reft. This 
fpedacle will be more eafily conceived, if one 
thinks of the month of May in Holland: 
nothing is then to be feen but innumerable 
flocks of cattle, feparated from each other with 
a kind of fymmetry, and which are never 
confounded together. Thefe animals were fo 
full of curiofity, and fo tame, that, had it not 
been for my dogs, I might have killed a great 
number of them from my carriage ; but the 
approach of my dogs put them all to flight. 
A curiofity equally familiar feems to cha- 
rad:erize all animals with horns, and particu- 
larly antelopes ; there were none but zebras 
and oftriches which kept at a great diftance. 
Being only four or five leagues from fome 
warm baths, much boafted of by the inhabi- 
tants of the Cape, I was defirous of feeing 
them ; though I was, at the fame time, afraid 
that my journey would be retarded. To gain 
on the one hand what I was about to lofe on 
the other, I departed earlier than ufual ; and 
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