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you from brutes only by the cruelties which 
they withhold from them, in order to beftow 
them upon you. 
My animals were fo well accuftomed to mix 
among us, that I was often obliged to force 
many of them to rife before I could reach my 
tent. I had a few flieep, which I fpared as 4 
refource, in cafe of fcarcity ; but I always kept 
fome old ones to tame the new comers, 
The canton in which we refided abounded 
with partridges of three different kinds ; one of 
which was as large as our pheafant. This 
was our ufual food. We put a fcore of them^ 
into our kettles at once, and they made excellent 
foup and jelly broth. We found alfo a kind of 
antelope, of the fize of our Europeaii goats; the 
{km of which was of a blackifh brown colour, 
with a few white fpots oa the thighs. I never 
found any thing more excellent eating. I 
killed feveral of them ; as well as of another 
fpecies, much fmaller, which I ftiall defcribe 
Jiereafter. 
My refidence In this place had confiderably 
augmented my collection of infedts and of cu- 
rious birds ; and as an inhabitant of the neigh- 
l^ourhood, who was going to the Cape, came 
to 
