AFRICA. . ; : .snt 
receives into it, than on a ftomach which 
digefts only by means of fol vent juices. I fol- 
lowed the fhrike for more than two hours, at- 
tentively examining all his motions, till at 
length he efcaped me : but, as long as I had 
him in view, I perceived in him no fymptoms 
of uneafmefs ; he ftill appeared equally brilk 
and lively. 
Befide the poifon of caterpillars, the favagcs 
employ that of feveral kinds of fnakes, to en- 
venom their arrows ; though the latter is lefs 
powerful. Thofe they principally ufe for this 
purpofe are, the kooper-capel^ the pof-adder^ 
and the hoorens-manetje^ or horned fnake. The 
laft takes its name from fome prominent fcales 
placed above the eyes, which project a few 
lines fo as to form a little creft over each eye. 
Thefe conflitute the whole of thofe pretended 
antelopes' horns beftowed on it by Kolben, who 
has given a figure of it under the name of ce- 
raftes. I alfo fee in Bruce's Travels into 
Abyffinia a horned fnake called cerafces, which 
appears, at lead from what that traveller fays, 
to have real horns : but has he not examined 
the horns of his ceraftes as inaccurately as thofe 
of his giraffe ? For he fays pofrtiveJy, that this 
quadruped 
