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i^ioiild pafs that way to plunder my camp, I 
detached two of my people to take a nearer 
view of them ; who immediately returned to 
inform me that we had been alarmed with- 
out any caufe ; and that they were only a 
horde of Hottentots, who were fmging and 
making merry. This intelligence freed me from 
my uneafmefs, and I was even happy in my ad- 
venture, which feemed to promife next morn- 
ing a very interefting interview. We therefore 
returned to our camp, and flept very foundly. 
Early in the morning I was again awakened 
by a warbling, which afforded me no lefs 
pleafure. It proceeded from birds which I did 
not know, and which I had never before heard. 
I found them moft beautiful. I was dazzled 
by the brilliant and variable plumage of the 
copper-coloured ftarling, the amethyft-coloured 
throat of the certhia flaveola the courou- 
coucou +, the king's-hunter, and of a great 
many others : I obferved alfo feveral fpecies 
which I had never before feen. 
Game appeared to me to be very abundant 
in this place. I faw, above all, innumerable 
* In the original fucrier ; called alfo by BrlfTon grim- 
perau ; and by Sir Hans Sloan, in his Natural Kiftory 
of Jamaica, the black and yellow bird, 
t C//r^^a//, a Brafilian bird. Trogon Linn, T. 
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