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prints of this animal's feet : he fees the patii 
it has purfued, and that which he muft fol- 
low to come up with it. A green leaf reverfed 
or torn off, a bud deftroyed, the manner in 
which a fmall branch is broken, and a thou- 
fand other circumftances, are to him never- 
failing marks, whilfl the moft expert European 
hunter would lofe all his refources. As for 
me, I could difcover nothing ; though I had 
bellowed much time and attention upon this 
divining part of one of the moft delightful 
kinds of hunting. I confefs that I was fo fond 
of it, that I did not difdain to enter into the 
minutiis of it. I acquired inftruftion more 
and more every day ; and, when I ranged the 
woods with my people, I fpent whole days in 
aiking queftions ; and I had fometimes occa- 
fion to put my precepts immediately into prac- 
tice. 
When we returned to the camp, my old 
Swanepoel told me that, during my abfence, 
he had been every night difturbed by flocks of 
elephants, which had approached fo near that 
they heard them break the branches of the 
trees, and browfe on the leaves. I made a 
tour through the foreft ; and I indeed faw a 
great many young trees broken, branches 
ftripped 
