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but by the difcoveiy of fome human beings, 
from whom we might obtain affiftance : and 
when a fmgle refource only prefents itfelf, it 
would be folly to think of its danger. 
On the way w^e met with an opportunity of 
killing, on the fummits of the rocks, a few da- 
mans, or dama antelopes, :which we deftined for 
our fuppen We had brought with us a fmali 
quantity of water from the fpring, becaufe we 
had reafon to fear we (hould find none on the 
mountain, and in fad: its top was a vaft parched 
plain. We arrived on It after having laborl- 
oufly climbed its fides, expofed to the fcorch- 
ing heat of the fun ; and when there, we flill 
fuffered from its rays become nearly hori- 
zontal, without finding fo much as a tree to 
afford us fhelter. But it is needlefs to fay, 
that this was not the principal care that occu- 
pied my thoughts ; our firft anxiety being to 
explore with our fight the country around, in 
order to difcover what, with fo much pains, 
%ve had come thither to feek. 
The piercing eyes of my favages permitted 
no objed they could take in to efcape them. 
They fcrutinized paHes, valleys, plains, and 
mountains, with the ftrideft attention. A kind 
of 
