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hunt among the fand-hills, with a View of 
finding fome bird or animal with which I was 
unacquainted, or any other extraordinary ob- 
Jed: proper to gratify my curiofity. They 
gave themfelves confiderable trouble ; but their 
zeal was unaccompanied with fuccefs. All 
their fearch ended in the difcovery of a few 
antelopes (ree bock), at which they fired ; and 
which, flying towards me, followed each 
other in a firing, as they paffed the {pot where 
I flood. I had an opportunity of firing ajt 
them in mv turn ; but at that moment I was 
engaged in viewing a prodigious number of 
vultures, and other birds of prey, which I faw 
flying round, or hovering in the air, and thea 
alighting at the diftance of a quarter of a league 
before me. My people had killed two of thofe 
antelopes called fteen-bocks ; but, regardlefs of 
this acquifition, I was devouring with my eyes 
the carnivorous birds I had difcovercd, which 
were becoming every moment more nume- 
rous ; and my curiofity was doubled, when I 
was told by my people that thefe birds were 
attracted by the fmell of a dead elephant, or 
fome other animal, on which it was probable 
they were feeding. 
When 
