AFRICA. ' 289 
On the fecond day I arrived at Lion-River, 
tvhich we croiTed at the place where we had 
pafled it before : and, towards the evening 
of the fourth, agreeably to my calculation, we 
were in fight of my camp on the oppofite 
bank of Oradge-River. 
Having fired our gux^s to infornl our people 
of our arrival, they all pafled the river by fwim- 
mlng, and came to me. Swanepoel alone re- 
mained in the camp, greatly perplexed about 
the litter, and the two oxen yoked together 
without any w^heel carriage, which he faw 
viith me. The increafing darkhefs, however, 
prevented me from venturing to pafs the river 
on the raft; and I fpent the night where I 
was, not returning to the camp till the next 
day. 
The firft of my employments, on my arrival^ 
was to put my giraffe in water to foften it, and 
to clean it from the afhes with which it was 
incrufted. I then fcraped it, removed all the 
fleihy fibres, and did, in ftiort, what a tanner 
would have done. 
To reduce it to a proper ftate for keepings 
all that was now neceffary was to impregnate 
it with fome ftyptic or aftringent juicej and for 
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