JT% TRAVELS IN 
This part was no better than that which I 
had juft left. It was deftitute of animals, 
and I found nothing to add to my colleflioa 
but a new fpecies of ftarling, I iio where 
law any of the large kinds of game ; the 
fcarcity of which Schoenmaker attributed to 
the lions and tigens, which he faid were fo 
nurn^rous as to drive them away; but I was 
inclined lefs to accufe the beafts of prey thai; 
the want of food and water. 
However, be the caufe what it would, I was 
much vexed at this failure of game. I had 
only been four months on my journey; yet I 
had already confumed, for the fupport of my 
people, more fheep and oxen than during the 
whole fixteen months of my former journey. 
On one hapd, the delays I had experienced 
had confiderably diminiflied my ftores : on the 
other, feveral of my cattle had died on the 
road, from accident, fatigue, and thirft. But 
what gave me moft chagrin was, that, after hav- 
ing purchafed new teams, I found myfelf on 
the point of being obliged to replace them by 
others. 
Hopelefs of finding a better country in my 
prefent track, I had twenty times embraced the 
defiga 
