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was going to hunt elephants among the great 
Nimiquas, Serrurier, who fucceeded Boers in 
the office of fifcal, had hoped that he would 
fall in with me, either on the road or among 
that people, and had accordingly given Jiini a 
letter and a packet for me. 
The packet came from Holland, and was 
fent by Temminck, who, defirous of having 
in his collection a peculiar fpecies of hornbill, 
requefted me to procure it for him, adding, 
that it was to met with in Africa, and that 
}ie had inclofed me the beak of one that I 
might not miftake it. Temminck was perr 
feftly right. The hornbill which he men- ' 
tioned was in reality an African bird, and 
pretty frequently feen on the eaftern coaft : but 
it is fo WMld, diftruftful, and difficult to ap- 
proach, that it muft always be very fcarce in 
coUediops. During the whole of my firft 
journey, I had it in my power tq fhopt only a 
fmgle one, which was in the country of Aur 
- teniqua : and, as if I had foreknown my friend's, 
will), I had been eager to pay him the com- 
pliment of it, and had already fent it him by 
Boers. The defire exprelTed in his letter en^ 
h^nced in my eyes the value of this hornbill, 
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