204 TRAVELS IN 
Its banks, to a confiderable diftance, were 
covered with trees of vailous fpecieSj and in 
fiich a quantity as to form a kind of foreft. 
Among them were mimofas, ebonies, calied 
by the natives fabris^ an.l wild apricot trees, the 
fruit of which equalled that which grows In the 
gardens of Europe. The moft remarkable 
of the flirubs was a fpecies of willow, bearing 
fruit in bunches, which we called vv^ild grapes : 
and both fhrubs and trees were peopled by an 
infinite number of birds, the notes of which were 
unknown to me. 
I was filled with delight at the contempla- 
tion of thefe different objefls. Congratulating 
myfelf for having refolved to purfue thib road, 
inflead of feeking one to the eaft, I was already 
filled with the hope of adding greatly and 
quickly to all my cclleSion ■ . In the mean 
time I fought for a place where there was 
green pafturage, to pitch my camp ; for every 
where around the grafs appeared completely 
burnt up. Klaas, whom I fent to make dif- 
coverles, came to tell me that there was no 
other. Schoenmaker himfelf and Bafter, upon 
our arrival, had been aftonifhed at the ftate of 
the fhore, which they had previoufly painted 
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