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parently too old. I found alfo fome new fpecics 
of very pretty birds ; and, among others, it 
barbet, of which I fliall give fome coloured 
figures. 
After this we went up the banks of the 
Kouga, Hill in the fame order as we had 
hitherto obferved ; but we had fcarcely travel- 
led an hour, when my advanced guard flop* 
ping, fent to inform me that they had dis- 
covered the prints of men's feet. Struck with 
terror, they imagined them to be the traces of 
4he CafFres, and they now faw nothing around 
them but thefe favages. Having haftened to 
the fpot, I obferved that the traces feemed 
very frefh; and as this difcovery began now 
to become very ferlous, I was fenfible that we 
ought to put ourfelves in the beft ftate of 
idefence, without lofs of time. I therefore 
ordered the whole caravan to halt ; and> 
whilft my people were bufily employed in 
forming a fence round the oxen, and in ar- 
ranging my camp, followed by my two in- 
trepid chafTeurs, I fet out to reconnoitre. Afte? 
following the traces for an hour, they con- 
duded us to a place where we found the re- 
mains of a fire not quite extinguiflied, and 
a few mutton bones, which, h^i been lately 
gnawed* 
