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made ufe whenever I chofe to go to the right 
bank. 
The firft time I tried It, I had with me two 
Caminouquas, who had come to my camp. At 
the light of my vehicle they were In raptures. 
I In the mean time could not but wonder at 
the grofs ignorance and little Induftry of thefe 
difierent races of Africans; who, continually 
expofed to the danger of having their bowels 
torn out by the hippopotami, or of being 
drowned when they crofs rivers that are over- 
flowed, are perhaps the only favages upon the 
face of the earth who have not yet invented 
fome fort of canoe. 
I pafled the river on my raft with Klaas 
and the two Caminouquas. We had fcarcely 
landed, when a diftreffing fpedacle met our 
eyes : It was the carcafe of a man half- devoured 
by a lion, with a bloody affagay by his fide* 
By his clothes, and what remained of his face, 
the two ftrangers recognized one of their com- 
rades, who had been miffing a week from his 
kraal, whence he had fet out alone to vlfit me. 
The footfteps of the wild bead were eafily dl- 
ftlnguifhed on the ground. He had defended 
himfclf againft it for fome time, and had even 
wounded 
