13^ TPvAVELS IN 
have occafion to return to this fubjed, and I 
iliall relate circumftances which will prove, 
that Klaas Bafter, in fpeaking of the effeds of 
euphorbia, did not deceive me. 
Though this mode of procuring game ap- 
pears as if it muil be very productive, it is 
much le^s advantageous than might be fup- 
pofed; for if the animals that crme co drink 
are not warned by the fight, they . -e by 
the tafte, and quit the w^ater. I once poiioned 
a rihall pond, to which there came in the courfe 
of the day m.ore than four thoufand antelope-, 
of the f[:)ring- bock fpecies ; yet I caught only 
three, befide a hyena which I found there the 
next morning, and vhich had died in the 
night. When- a flock of antelopes arrives at 
the bafiDj the firPc, or the nioft thirrcy, attempt 
to drink ; but fcarctly have they touched the 
water v^hen they retire affrighted, and the 
fiock inftantly follow their example, without 
approaching the fatal fiiare. 
In traverfiog the dry bed of the Kauffi, I 
found feveral forts of aquatic bu'ds, particularly 
thofe wild ducks which the planters call the 
htrg-eend (the mountain-duclc.) lliey fwam 
and fportcd in the little bafms among the 
rdcksj 
