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means of this expedient I glided up in tte 
beft manner I could, and reached the brink 
of the pit. This trifling accident, from which 
heaven would not have faved me as -it faved 
young Daniel, did not make me forget my 
touraco. With my dogs, which had follow- 
ed my. Hottentots, I trufted I fhould be able 
to difcover it, in whatever place it might be 
concealed : fending them out, therefore, on the 
fearch, they found it fquatted down under a 
tufted bufh, I inftantly laid my hands upon 
it ; and the pleafure of at length poffeffing 
this charming animal, foon obliterated from 
my mind the dangers and embarraffment it 
had coft me. 
I afterwards procured as many of them, as I 
w^ifhed : I even caught them all alive ; for 
having remarked, in the ftomach of this one, 
the fruits on which they principally feed, I 
always had recourfe to the trees which pro- 
duced thefe fruits, whether I wilhed to fire or 
to lay fnares for them. 
This bird, as agreeable by its form as by 
Its colour and notes, which are very diftinft, 
xinites nimblenefs to elegance ; all its raotions 
are lafcivious? and its attitudes full of grace. 
Its 
