TRAVELS IN * 
I had really wounded it, and that It had pro-» 
bably gone elfewhere to die. 
During my hunting excurfion I fell in with 
a Hottentot, fervant to a planter in the neigh- 
bourhood, for whom he was looking after a 
fiock of fheep. Though I had already, among 
my animals, a tolerable lot of ftieep ; yet, as the 
barrennefs of the country I had begun to tra-r 
verfe made me apprchenfive that, with all my 
economy, they might not be fufEcient for our 
confumption, I wilhed to increafe the number 
by purchafing fome from the Hottentot. As 
a keeper, it is true, this man had no right to 
difpofe of them ; but I offered him fo advan- 
tageous a price, that his mafter could not but 
have been fatisfied with his bargain. He per- 
fifted, however, in refufmg me ; and the only 
benefit I derived from our interview M^as ^ 
knowledge of my bed and fhorteft road to the 
Elephants-River, where I was anxious to arrive. 
According to this fliepherd, I had ftill a long 
day's journey to travel, which it would be 
neceffai-y when I fet out to accomplifh as 
fpeedily as poffible, without interruption and 
without halting, as during the whole route 
neither 
