3^ TRAVELS In 
of the fcene. At lafl: I relieved him from his em« 
barraiTmeht, or he would other wife, 1 belie ve^' 
have remained all night ia the fame attitude. 
" Well," faid " for whom are thefe boxes 
For you, for you !" faid he. " They are 
*' full of thofe animals of which you are fo fond. 
If I have been tardy in returning, it was only 
that I might not come empty-handed, and 
*' without bringing vvith me fomething to 
prove that I had not forgotten you* I am 
*^ afraid, however, that the birds are neither fo 
beautiful nor fo rare, as thofe which we have 
, " killed in our excurfion," 
Judge of my aftoniihment and joy, when^ 
upon opening the boxes, I perceived a well-ar- 
ranged colledion of handfome infedts, with fome* 
birds very expertly fkinned, and agreeably to the 
method which he had feen me fo often pradice 
in the defarts. I freely confefs that no tefti- 
mony of favour or efteem has ever filled my 
heart with fo pure and delicious a fentiment as 
this frank and artlefs proceeding on the part of 
my Hottentot, and the knowledge, that dur- 
ing our feparation, which had by no mean^ 
been iliort, his thoughts had been employed 
fclely upon me. Worthy and excellent na-* 
tion ! ye wits of Europe, match me if you 
can, 
