33S TiRAVELS iM 
Though the Draay tvas dry, it had a fe# 
pools in fome of its hollows, and was adorned 
■with beautiful trees, I looked out for a place 
to encamp, both to reft ourfelves, and to fhelter 
us from a violent north wind, w^hich blinded 
us with clouds of fand, and fufFocated us with 
its fcorching heat. At noon Fahrenheit's ther- 
mometer flood at iio*^, and in the evening at 
funfet it was at ninety. 
Notwithftanding the wind and the heat, I 
went to try my fortune among the trees on 
the banks ; and indeed I found there a moft fu- 
perb and magnificent eagle, of a new fpecieg^ 
both male and female of which I had the hap- 
pinefs to kill with my double-barrelled gun. 
I had already feen fome of thefe birds on the 
banks of Orange-River ; but they did not fulfer 
me to approach them. 
This eagle I named grlffardy becaufe its 
claw^s are ftronger and fliarper than thofe of 
any other eagle known. Equal in ftrength 
to the golden eagle, it has, as a diftinguifhing 
charaderiftic, a fort ©f creft pendent from the 
hind part of the head : the leg is covered with 
a fine down throughout its whole length, and 
the thighs are deftitute of thofe long feathery 
