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nual purfuits, began to grow fcarce, and would 
have retired from us, altogether. 
I was fometimes vifited by the inhabitants 
of this diftridt ; which enabled me to procure 
a fufEciency of. fruits, vegetables, milk, and 
of every thing elfe they could fupply me 
with : their vifits indeed coft me fome bottles 
of fpirlts ; but as I deteft thefe noxious liquors, 
and never drank of them, this attradtion re- 
tained them aUttle, and the impreffion which 
they made on my calks was not deadly. 
I conjeftured that the wood near which I 
had placed my camp, would furnifh me with 
fome touracos. As I was not acquainted with 
thefe birds, and had never feen one of them, I 
went in fearch of them, and was lucky enough 
to difcover a few. I fpent a long time in 
purfuing them, but without effed ; for as thefe 
birds perch always on the extremities of the 
higheft branches, I never found them within 
the reach of my fufee. One afternoon, 
however, I followed one, and did more exe- 
cution* Hopping from fpray to fpray, ftill 
going only a little way from me, it deceived 
me for more than an hour, and conduced me 
to a great diftance 3 till being out of patience 
with 
