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pofitlve orders than the reft, and I could not 
help complying with his wi£hes : the honour- 
able motives of his behaviour were to me a 
fufEcient invitation ; and perhaps he himfelf 
depended upon the teftimony which my gra^ 
titude would give in his favour, when I re- 
turned to the Cape. 
As foon as I arrived at his habitation, I 
began, according to cuftom, to examine the 
neighbourhood. In traverfing the woods, I 
found the traces of buffaloes and elephants, 
which appeared to be very frefh ; I faw alfo 
fome of their dung : and obferved a great num- 
ber of different birds, none of which I had 
hitherto met with, and among others feveral 
touracos. Lefs than this would have been 
fujSicient to detain me in this fpot. At the 
diftance of four or five leagues from the place 
where Mr. Mulder refided, I found, on the 
edge of a wood, a very commodious and con- 
venient fpot for fixing my camp. 
As Mr. Mulder was about to depart for the 
Cape, he fupplied me with twenty pounds of 
gunpowder ; I embraced this opportunity alfo 
to write to my friends, and to fend Mr. Boers 
about an hundred birds, ajid a fmaU box of 
infeds, 
