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game but the bofbock antelope, and a fmaller 
fpecies, of which 1 have alread y fpoken. On 
the plain, befides the three fpecies of par- 
tridges above-mentioned, v^e obferved another 
called the red pheafant^ becaufe its feet and the 
naked fkin of its throat are of that colour. 
Of carnivorous animals we faw tigers and 
hycenas, but not a fmgle lion.^ 
The heavens became every day more and 
more ferene^ and feemed to prefage that our 
fituation would foon be as happy as it had 
been miferable and gloomy. The hill of Pam- 
poen-Kraal, on which I had placed my camp, 
pleafed me m^uch. Not far from my tent 
flood a fmall eminence, crowned by a thicket 
of thirty or thirty-five feet in diameter. The 
trees and fhrubs of which it was compofed, in 
growing had fo interwoven their branches, 
that the whole appeared as one very thick and 
buihy body. Having imagined that I might 
convert it into a little palace, I ordered a path 
to be traced out to its center, and the branches 
to be lopped olF on each fide to the height of 
a man, fo as to afford an eafy paiTage. In the 
middle of the thicket, by the force of labour 
and employing the hatchet, we were able to 
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