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brought with me never varied. I faw another- 
at Amfterdam, which had been kept for more 
than fifteen years. The cafe was the fame 
with regard to that belonging to the governor 
of the Cape : it was ftili freiher than mine, 
but in other refpedls they were equal. I can- 
not help adding here, that I never found 
this animal properly reprefented in any of the 
engravings or figures v/hich 1 have hitherto 
feen of it. In my defcription of African 
quadrupedes, I (hall give one from a drawing 
which I made of this upon the fpot, before it 
was Ikinned. 
Next morning, the weather being cool and 
cloudy, we marched fix hours in order to reach 
the borders of a very large pond abounding 
with fmall tortoifes, of which we caught about 
twenty ; we broiled them all in the fame 
manner on the coals, and found them excellent. 
They were from feven to eight inches in 
length, and about four in breadth. The fhell 
on the back was of a whitifh grey colour. In- 
clining a little to yellow : when alive, they 
had a difagreeable fmell; but by roafting them 
it was entirely deftroyed. 
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