TRAVELS IN 
with my dogs, who, confufed at feeing it 
■efcape, did not return to me but with a fpecies 
of fliame. 
Except the kainfi, I faw no other game 
throughout the whole chain of mountains, 
but fome daflen, or dama antelopes ; and the 
breed of thefe is not numerous, becaufe the 
eagles, and other birds of prey, which inhabit 
the mountains, prevent their multiplying. 
The mode of hunting obferved by thefe 
carnivorous fowls, is a curious fpedacle. 
Perched ontheloftieft fummits and the fteepeft 
rocks of the mountains, they watch their game 
from afar, and their acute fight enables them 
to difcover it at a vaft diftance. If they per- 
ceive one of thefe antelopes among the rocks, 
they dart upon it with the rapidity of light- 
ning, feize it before it has time to recover its 
hole, and carry it olf to their eyry, either to 
devour it themfelves, or to deliver it to the 
talons of their hungry young. 
Thefe vultures, and other birds of prey, en- 
gaged my attention much more than the fmall 
quadrupeds 1 have mentioned. Having always 
the increafe of my colledion at heart, I hoped 
here to meet with an opportunity of adding 
to 
