36 TRAVELS IN. 
We rambled a long while over the moft 
tirefome ground, and had frequently to leap 
from one piece of rock to another, and fcramble 
over the mouldered fragments of the moun- 
tain. With my mind lefs occupied, I {hould 
have enjoyed this tremendous fpedacle, where 
exhaufted nature w^ants ftrength to renovate 
herfelf. How many fucceflive centuries have 
exercifed their devouring teeth on thefe for- 
midable barriers ! Thus every part of the globe, 
one after another, becomes the prey of time ; 
or rather the globe itfelf perpetually waftes 
away, and melts infenfibly in the bofom of 
fpace. 
After a very fatiguing wall-:, made up of 
turnings and windings, we at length perceived 
behind a little hill the two elephants of which 
we v^ere in fearch : and, to add to our good 
fortune, the fituation was fo favourable, that 
we could approach within gun-fhot without 
being perceived. Klaas Bafter and 1 feleded 
each his objed:. Mine, which was a female, 
dropped Inftantly. His was a male : it uttered 
fo dreadful a cry as to make us fhudder with 
fear, and ran two hundred paces before It fell. 
My Hottentots followed it ; and the moment 
they 
