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account I was extremely angry, fearing that I 
fhould no longer find that indifpenfable affift- 
ance which I had a right to expe£t, if any diC- 
order or fatal accident fhould deprive me of 
my faithful guardian. However, when he had 
once given the alarm, they all flopped to watch 
the fignal ; and on the leaft motion of his eyes, 
or fhaking of his head, I have feen them all 
ruih forwards, and fcamper away in that quar- 
ter to which they obferved his looks directed. 
I often carried him along with me in my 
hunting excurfions ; during which he would 
amufe himfelf in climbing up trees, in order to 
fearch for gum, vfhich he was remarkably fond 
of. Sometimes he difcovered honey in the 
crevices of rocks, or in hollow trees; but when 
he found nothing, when fatigue and exercife 
had whetted his appetite, and when he began 
to be ferioufly oppreffed by hunger, a fcenc 
took place which to me appeared extremely 
comic. When he could not find gum and 
honey, he fearched for roots, and ate thenx 
with much relifh ; efpecially one of a particu- 
lar fpecies, which, unfortunately for me, I 
found excellent and very refrefhing, and which 
I greatly wiflied to partake o£ But Kees was 
very 
