AFRICA. 
an inch [about fixteen feet and an Inch Englini 
meafure] high; and I fhould have been glad to 
have had its fkin as well as that of the other : 
but being at a diftance from my camp, to 
which I did not think of returning, at leaft 
very fliortly, and being in want of every ne- 
ceflary convenience for the purpofe of carry- 
ing it, what could I do with it? I now felt how 
great reafon I had to rejoice, that the former 
was fafe at my camp by Orange-River. This, 
being prepared and farlted, ferved to fupply my 
caravan with food for fome days. 
The next day I direded my courfe north 
by weft, to reach a periodical ftream called the 
Draay^ (meandering river). Its bed, where 
we came up to it, was not deep ; and we did 
not perceive it till juft as we were defcending 
into it. A herd of buffaloes happened to be 
lying in it at the time. We were clofe to each 
other ; but, on feeing us, they all rofe together, 
and fled with a precipitation, noife, and af- 
fright, that I cannot defcribe ; while we, as 
much furprifed as they at the meeting, and by 
no means prepared for fuch an adventure, 
fuffered them to flee, without firing a fingle 
fhot. 
Though 
