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had drawn off the liquor into earthen jugs# 
This operation afforded my people an oppor-* 
tunity of getting drunk. 
The night following our two lions returned 
again, and I imagined that all the jackals and 
hysenas of the country had affembled to pay 
us a vifit. One of the latter had the boldnefs 
to crofs our fires, and to advance clofe to the 
fpot where we were. A Hottentot difcharged 
his piece at it, but he unluckily miffed his aim. 
The jackals even entered our camp ; and, with* 
out the affiftance of our dogs, we fhould have 
been forced to fhare our booty with thefe ani- 
mals, w^iich feemed determined not to be dis- 
appointed. 
Next morning my people were employed in 
cutting to pieces the hide of the hippopotamus, 
to make what in the country are called chan-* 
hoc, Thefe are whips for flogging the oxen 
which are under the hand of the driver on the 
pole of the waggon : they are fhaped like thofe 
ufed in Europe for horfes, but they are thicker 
and longer ; and as the fivin, where ftrongeft, 
may be about two inches in thicknefs, they 
are cut into thongs two inches broad, which 
makes thefe pieces about two in:hes fquare. 
They are fometimes fix feet in length, and 
w^hen 
