J24 TRAVELS IN 
and which I imagined from its appearance to 
have peitained to an ifatls. Whatever the ani- 
mal may be^ it feems that, having the fame 
inftindt in hunting as the other two, it aflb- 
elates v/ith them for the fearch and attack of 
prey. 
During our firing In the night, and while 
difcharglrig our guns at a venture, one of our 
balls had wounded a jackal. We found it the 
i^ext d 3y on our road, and it afforded a fubje6l 
of difpute for my troop ; each claiming the ho- 
nour of having killed it, and alleging fuch 
whlmfically pleafant arguments in fupport of 
ills pretenfions, that they made me laugh ready 
to burft. 
This altercation continued the whole way, 
and did not ceafe till we approached the 
kraal, when I halted to w^alt for and receive 
the chief. 
He came to meet me attended by fome wo- 
men, and a great part of the men of his horde. 
They were all ftout, near five feet and a half 
[five feet ten inches Englifli] high, with gentle, 
but cold and phlegmatic countenances. Every 
thing about the men indicated the fame phlegm: 
their motions, geftures, and looks, were demure 
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