to T R A V E L S I N 
an account of foth complete refsarches, and 
which relate to fo interefting a pait' of Africa. 
They are the prop-erty of the fcience, which 
"would then no longer remain buried in obli- 
vion. The Colonel was frequently delighted 
with the many and various fpecies I had colled- 
ed, and he hefitated not to acknowledge that 
the majority of them were perfeftly new to 
him. 
It Is true, that, bound to fociety by no tie that 
interfered w^th, or controuled n^y' favourite 
purfuits, abfolute mafter of my time, and dif- 
iengaged from every affedion but that of the 
chace, I gave myfelf up to its exercife like a 
true favage. A favage indeed has no induce- 
ment but want ; whereas I often affixed to the 
conqueft of a fmgle objedt whofe exiftence I 
had difcovered, a price that no watchings and 
no fatigue could counterpoife. Whenever, al- 
lured by the cry, or other token of fome new 
bird, the ordinary means were infufficient, I 
fet my invention to work that it might not 
efcape, and if it w^ere necefTary to fpend « 
whole moiith in purfuing, or rather in w^aiting 
for my prey, I immediately pitched my tent, 
and never quitted the place till I had ob- 
tained ito 
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