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deeper, and contained thofe cavities which the. 
people of the country call Zee-Koe-Gat (fea- 
cow holes '^). Thefe amphibious animals ufu- 
ally retired into the holes in the day, and fuch 
as did fo we looked upon as our own ; becaufe, 
when they quitted them, they were obliged to 
traverfe the fhallow, where they were fd ex- 
pofed, that we had every advantage for {hoot- 
ing them ; and when we could not drive them 
out of their holes in the day^ we kept them 
there all night by lighting fires on the beach 5 
fo that the next day hunger obliged them to 
quit the water, and to pafs before the hunters 
pofted on their road. 
In this manner we procured as many as we 
wifhed ; fo that at length my people killed them 
folely for their {kins. My camp was converted 
into a manufaftory of chanbocks t. All around 
there was fcarcely any thing to be feen but 
manufadured fklns; and the heated imaginatioa 
* The Dutch colonifts call the hippopotamus, or river- 
horfe, the fea-cow. T. 
f Chanbocks are a fort of whips or fwitches, made of 
the fkin of the rhinoceros or hippopotamus : that of the 
hippopotamus is preferred, becaufe the whips made with 
it are more pliable, and lefs apt to break ; but fuch as arc 
made of the Ikin of the rhinoceros have more beauty. 
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