AFRICA. to; 
when they perceived us, they turned off, made 
a double, and, gaining the fide of the moun- 
tain oppofite to that which they had come 
down, quickly difappeared. 
A female alone, either lefs frightened, or 
too much fatigued to afcend the height, quitted 
the herd, and continued her courfe through 
the valley. Hitherto I had kept in my dogs, 
though with difficulty ; but when the animal 
was near enough to afford a chafe, I flipped 
them, and they foon came up with her. Jager, 
particularly, was fo near, that from time to 
time he fixed his teeth in her legs and thighs, 
and, as he was the ftouteft and ftrongeft of my 
pack, at every bite he brought away either 
flefh or fkin. Young Van der Wefthuyfen 
and I purfued the chafe on horfeback, follow- 
ed by my Hottentots, who, though on foot, 
were little behind us. At length we fur- 
rounded the animal, and, throwing a rope with 
a flip-knot over her, terminated the chafe; then 
faflening the rope to my horfe's tail, I drew 
her after me. 
At firft ihe followed quietly; but, whether 
terrified at the fight of the dogs, or whether the 
pain of her wounds became too acute, we had 
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