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the foreft with great care ; and having comf 
up with it at the end of half an hour, I took 
aim at it in the proper place : but I was much 
furprifed not to fee it fall ; my fufee, in all 
probability, muft not have been fufEciently 
loaded, or the animal was an impenetrable 
rock. However, when it found itfelf wounded, 
it rufhed towards us with great fury, as we ex-! 
ped:ed; but the bufhes being thick, and ferving 
us as a kind of rampart, it could do nothing 
elfe than ftamp the earth, and ftiew its rage in 
vain. It loft a great deal of blood ; but it 
appeared, from the fwiftnefs with which it fled, 
that it would be of no avail to purfue it. I 
was extremely forry for this difappointment, 
as it was the largeft I had ever before feen. It 
was at leaft thirteen feet in height; and, to 
judge by the eye, its tufks could not have 
weighed lefs than an hundred and twenty 
pounds each. 
When our provifions were thoroughly 
dried and packed up, we departed, in or- 
der to return once more towards the fatal 
Kayman's Hole,, where I had pafTed on the 
30th of April, two months before. My Hot- 
tentots, whom I had fent to reconnoitre, having 
info^rn^ed me th^t we could crofs the chain of 
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