iS^ TRAVELS IN 
precautions I took to fecure a welcome oiigM 
not to be wondered at. 
A¥hen we left this horde, we re-paffed Secre- 
tary-Fountain ; and thence taking our courfe 
to the north" eaft, we arrived, after travelling 
fc:)ur hours and a half, in a parched plain, 
where the horde I fought refided. The kraal 
contained about a fcore of men, who came to 
meet me ; and every thing I faw had the ap- 
pearance of profound w^ant. 
I was ftruck, however, with a mark of dif- 
tindion, which I faw on one of the huts. It ' 
was completely covered with the fkin of a 
giraffe. Knowing this quadruped, the tallefl: 
on the face of the earth, only from the defcrip- 
tions and incorrect plates I had feen, I had no 
fufpicion that this was its iliin : yet fo it w^as. 
At length I was in the country it inhabited ; I , 
ihould foon fee living ones ^ and the moment 
drew near when 1 fcould be recompenfed, at 
lead in fome meafure, for the troubles and mis- 
fortunes of my journey. 
The tvv^o flieep which I brought with me 
would not follow us ; and we had had great 
trouble to bring them as far as the kraal. That 
we 
