AFRICA. 2DX 
I did not let go, and foon pulled out of the neft, 
with equal joy and furprife, two beautiful lit^ 
tie parrots, a male and a female. 
The prefence of thefe intruders on a foreign 
republic appeared to me an inexplicable cir- 
cumftance. The Nimiquas alone were not fur- 
prifed at it, as they were already acquaiiited 
with it by experience ; and informed me that, 
\vhen the republicans have finifhed their habi- 
tations, fornetimes birds of another fpecies, 
ftronger than they, drive them out, cccupy 
their place, and as they breed live there in fo- 
ciety. Thus, it is not among mankind alone 
that the weak are oppre fled, defpoiled, and dri- 
ven from their homes : birds alfo have their 
tyrants, which feize for their own ufe the pro- 
(Jud: of the labour of others, and have equally 
arguments at command to prove they have done 
that to which they had a right. 
Day, which compels beafts of prey to retr^^at 
to their dens, and reflores courage to thofe 
animals whofe life is innocent and whofe man- 
ners are peaceful, brought back to the tree the 
flock of little parrots which the alarm of the 
flight had difperfed. They all arrived in pairs ; 
and before they entered their common abode, 
S 3 they 
