AFRICA. £37 
heights, befide baboons, are the Kahnji of the 
Hottentots, or Klip fpringer c f the Dutch 
planters, a fpecies of antelope, found only on 
the moft inacceffible rocks, and of which i ftiali 
fpeak elfewhere. In the low bottoms and val- 
leys, and particularly upon the borders of.ihe 
fmall rivulet that pours itfelf into Baie-aux-Bois^ 
are found fome G^ys-boc^ and Duykers^ two fpe- 
cies that I have formerly mentioned. 
Every evening I heajrd the roaring of hy.-^nas, 
but I never met with any of them in the courfe 
of the day. Once only I had a partial view 
of a panther, among the fand-hills in the neigh- 
bourhood of Falfe Bay. I faw alfo fome par- 
tridges of that large fpecies, very improperly 
called at the Gape, pheafants. Shrubs and plants 
are very numerous on the mountains ; but of 
thefe enough has been already faid by Thum- 
berg, Paterfon, and Sparmann. 
Upon quitting the lodging I had occupied 
at the Cape, in the houfe of Boers, I accepted 
one from Colonel Gordon, though it was pro- 
bable that my plans would fuffer me to remain 
in it only for a very (hort time. 
Scarcely had I taken pofTeflion of it, when I 
began top repare for my departure, and gave 
even 
