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«KIaaS) ever attentive, ever thinking on tne^ 
cut ofif a few flices which he brought to 
me when broiled, and I found them ex- 
cellent. He ahb laid the £hin-bones on the 
fire. Their marrow, as white and firm as the 
fat of mutton, was truly delicious. I had never 
feen any fo fine, and much regretted that 1 had 
no bread to make a toaft. 1 melted a certain 
quantity, however, with which I filled the 
giraffe's bladder, and which afterwards ferved 
me a long time to drefs flices of the flefli. 
After dinner I refumed my work. Klaas 
had levelled and cleaned a piece of ground 
about twenty feet fquare. On this I caufed 
the ikin to be ftretched out, and confined its 
edges with large ftones. 
The planters in thefe cafes ufe wooden pegs, 
which they thruft through the ikin to keep it 
forcibly ftretched • but this is a faulty method j 
for the flvin dries with an uneven edge, and, 
when it is wanted for ufe, the appendages thus 
occafioned remain, even after the fkin has been 
wetted with water ; for what has been dif- 
tended with too much violence will never after 
recover its proper tone. However dexterous 
the naturalift may be, he cannot remedy thefe 
1 infu- 
