34^ TRAVELS IN 
himfelf to my colledion, into which I accord- 
iBgly made him enter, fetching him down 
with my gun. 
Several of the favage? of the horde, who, 
attraded by cnriofity, were amufmg themfelves 
hj looking at the operations of the encamp- 
ment, were by me at the time. Thefe, moft 
of whom had not the leaft Idea of fire-arms, 
were greatly furprifed. The aftonifhment 
produced in them by the loud explofion of my 
gun, and the fudden death of the bird, may 
eafily be imagined. Stupefied with admiration, 
they immediately ran to the kraal, to relate the 
double prodigy they had witnefled. The re- 
port had been heard there ; but when it was 
known, that it was the white man who had 
produced the thunder, and killed a bird at the 
fame time, almoft all the horde ran to thefpot 
^here the miracle was performed. 
The next day, when thefe good favages came 
to vifit my camp, I was employed in taking 
an obfervation of the fun's altitude. Thofe 
v/ho the day before had feen me take aim at 
the bee-eater before it fell, and now law me 
direft my quadrant, which they took for ano* 
ther fufecj in the fame manner at the fun, 
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