AFRICA. !^i3 
more than once put my patience to the proof, 
and had like to have coft me very dear. It 
was a bald-buzzard*, of a moft beautiful fpe- 
cies. This bird, of the genus of the eagle, 
is almoft as large as the ofpray. Every day 
I faw it hovering over my camp, but at fuch a 
diftance that it could not be reached by a ball. 
I however conftantly obferved its motions; arnl 
I made a perfon always keep watch, and never 
lofe fight of it. One day that I had crolTed 
the Queur-Boom, while walking along the 
bank oppofite to that on which my camp 
ftood, I perceived a number of heads, frag- 
ments of large fiflies, and the bones and re- 
mains of fmall antelopes, ftrewed on the 
ground, near the rotten trunk of an old tree. 
I immediately concluded that this muft be the, 
place where two of thefe bald-buzzards hadefta- 
bli£hed their fifhery, or at leaft their ordinary 
haunt ; and it was not long before I faw them 
foaring round in the air, at a great height. 
Without lofs of time I concealed myfelf in a 
thick bufh ; but this ftratagem was not exe- 
cuted with fufficient akrtnefs to deceive the 
piercing eyes of thefe two eagles. They 
doubtlefs obferved me ; for they did not de- 
^By feme naturaliils called the ifea eagle. T, 
P 3 fcend, 
