14^ TRAVELS IN 
me that there was nothing In his ftomach- but 
a little clay, which he had Iwallowed to appeafe 
the rage of hunger, and fome pieces of the an- 
telope. Be this as it would, I gave up the 
whole of him to my people, referving for my- 
felf only a couple of quarts of greafe, which 
they took from him, and which is efteemed by 
the planters an excellent refolvcnt for tumours 
and ulcers. 
In returning to my camp I found a beautiful 
fpecies of euphorbia, which I thought new, 
and of which I made a drawing, that is copied 
in the annexed plate. This euphcrbium ad- 
heres to the earth no otherwife than by a few 
flender roots. It rifes to the height of nine or 
ten inches only ; and exactly refembles a cu- 
cumber, of which it has the bent flbape. It 
contains abundance of milky juice, which ap- 
peared to me as cauftic as that of the great eu- 
phorbia. Its colour, which is a yellowifh 
green, tinted with a beautiful fhade of violet to- 
wards the root, gives it a very attradive aj)- 
pearance : but woe betide the man who fhould 
be tempted to eat of it ! as I am told it is a viru- 
lent poifon. Several of my Hottentot?, and 
my 
