AFRICA. ' 1^ 
tions* It was with particular pleafure that I 
embraced Swanepoel. The good old man 
had defpaired of ever feeing me again, and 
yet had remained faithful to his poft. Since 
my departure, he and his company had partly 
lived ona pafan antelope, which he had killed on 
its coming to drink at their refervoir. Luckily 
the ftorm, which we had experienced on the 
mountain, extended alfo to them, and infured 
them a provifion of water for fome time, by 
filling their ciftern. They had even recovered 
one of my oxen, which 1 had left dying on the 
road. Relieved from its thirft, and revived by 
the rain, the animal had proceeded on its way, 
and, guided by the fires which they had kept 
burning, had adually rejoined them. Swane- 
poel had flattered himfelf, that he fhould alfa 
fee again the three dogs which had quitted me^ 
but th'/y never appeared, and no doubt re- 
mained in the defert, v\^here they became wild. 
But wha^ gave him moft uneafinefs in his little 
camp was, the frequent attacks of the lions 
and hyaenas. The carcafes of the oxen I had 
left on the road had attraded by their fmell 
a confiderable aflemblage of thefe ravenous 
beafts, the fiercenefs and number of which were 
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