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my people, they were intoxicated with joy. 
This always happened in limilar halts. Be* 
fides plea fare and good cheer, they w^ere ex- 
ciifed from work. At length, when day broke, 
they retired to fleep ; while I, though fatigued 
with the fight and noife of the crowd, took my 
fufee, and went to beat the country with my 
dogs. 
The place did not promlfe me much fport ; 
I perceived only a few dwarf trees thinly feat- 
tered over the diftant mountains, and nothing 
but oily plants, without a fmgle tree on the 
plain. I favv feveral vultures, which appeared 
to me of a different fpecies from thofe with 
which I was already acquainted ; but they 
were fo high that I could not fhoot any of 
them. I ahb found feveral flocks of oftriches, 
bat they did not allow me to come near thsm. 
The rocks were covered with crows, and the 
plain with larks ; hut I faw not a fingle fcarce 
bird to lire at, and killed only one animal vv^orth 
notice in my whole day's excurfion. This 
w^as a hare, of the fame fpecies with thofe I 
had formerly feen at Karow, and known there 
by the name of roodc-gat-haas (the hare with 
jhg re4 anua). His ears are not fo long as thofe 
of 
