AFRICA. i8j 
differs from the female, which is fmaller, in 
having the whole under part of the body, from, 
the breaft to the root of the tall, of a beautiful 
black, while the latter has the fame parts of a 
yellow ifabell^ colour.^ It has alfp, on each 
fide of its neck, a white ftripe, which extends 
from the eye to the middle of its length, and 
interfeds a reddifli ground. A very fingular 
charafterifiic, common to all the anhingas, is 
that of having the feathers of the tail deeply 
ftriated, and as it were ribbed. I lhall pais 
over other fingularlties, which will be fouiid 
in my general defcriptions. 
During the time I refided at the houfe of 
•Liewenburg, I chiefly employed myfelf in 
again traverfing every part of the diftrid:. The 
family, according to the cuftom of the coun- 
try, exerted themfelves to procure me oppor- 
tunities of enjoying the pleafures of thechace; 
and, in conformity with the fame cuftom^ 
the neighbours were invited to join in them. 
We killed a great quantity of fmall game, par- 
ticularly wood- cocks, which are very numerous 
on account of the abundance of rivers that every 
where form fmall marflies ; and w^e wandered 
over thofe high mountains which are the boun- 
daries 
