TRAVELS IN 
and I felt a pleafure in imagining, that at tha 
very moment, perhaps, when I received his 
requeft, the bird he fo much wanted was 
adually in his hands. 
The news which Temmlnck fent me of 
Holland, and Serrurier of the Cape, were 
highly gratifying in my prefent fituation, but 
I would rather have received them by other 
hands than thofe of Pinar. My meeting with 
him feemed to forebode me no good ; I was 
alarmed at his being in my neighbourhood ; 
and my fears, as will be feen, were but too 
well founded. 
Though PInar had followed a different track, 
his journey had not been more fortunate than 
mine : like me he had experienced the cala- 
mity of drought and want of forage ; but as he 
had but one waggon and few people, he had 
extricated himfelf from them with lefs diffi- 
culty. I was obliged to llften to the tirefome 
and endlefs tale of his prowefs, with which I 
will not trouble the reader, for never was ftory 
told with more prolixity ; though, after the 
fervice he had juft rendered me, I could not 
avoid hearing it. 
According to his ov/n account, he was re- 
pairing 
