f®6 TRAVELS IN 
we were fuddenly flopped by cries, which 
feemed to iffue from the fummit of the rnourir 
tain. Caftijg our eyes towards it, we pe^-^ 
ceived about a dozen zebras aflembled at the 
foot of a rock, which fheltered them froni 
the wind, while they warmed themfelves in 
the fun. 
The Intermediate fpace between us was 
very fteep ; and we could not approach them 
without taking a wide circuit, which would 
have required a long and laborious walk, and 
wafted to no purpofe a pordon of time which 
I was not defirous of lofmg. To frighten i 
them, however, and afford me the plea- 
fure of feeing them run, I fired a fufee. 
The fpot on which we flood was favourable for 
producing an echo ; and in fadt the explofjon, 
after having reverberated around us, reached 
the rock, at the foot of which the zebras were 
collefted, and was thence returned back again 
to our ears. 
The zebras, deceived by the repercuffioa 
of the found, and fuppofing it to come from 
the top of the mountain, defcended from their 
rock on full gallop, and ran towards \is, en- 
deavouring to eicape through the valley. But 
when 
