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of nature, and make a moft admirable figure 
in the mouth of a pretty woman. 
This prize was fo feducing that my Hot* 
tentots depended on enjoying the pleafure o( 
a fecond hunting excurfion ; but I found that 
we had a fufEciency of provifions, and that it 
would be better to employ our time more ufe- 
fully, and to vary our occupations, or rather 
our pleafures, a little more. Having a ftrong 
inclination to try my net here, it was with 
great difficulty we could find a place in the 
river convenient fbr cafting it ; we, however, 
fomehow fucceeded ; but we caught only 
about twenty fiili, of di{Ferent kinds. The 
largeft were fcarcely fix inches in length; and 
when fried in the greafe of the hippopotamus 
they appeared to me excellent. As this fport 
procured us no advantage worthy of attention, 
and as I was difgufted with the embarraifment 
we experienced in approaching the river in 
the manner we wifhed, I ordered the net to 
be carried away. During the tim.e my people 
were employed in folding it, a bird perched 
near us, which, inftead of being frightened by 
our prefence, approached more and more, 
fending forth very fhrill cries. I was told 
that it was the bird which difcovers honey ; 
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