Feb.] cape TOWN TO BEAUFORT. 
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circumstance he pointed out with great anima- 
tion, and imitated the sound of the bullet passing- 
through some branches. He was covered with 
blood, from the awkward manner in which he had 
carried the still bleeding animal. 
Therm, at noon in the thick shade 82. 
Do. at 2 in the waggon 95. 
Do. at 3 in do 100. 
The flies compelled me to remove from the 
waggon where I was writing, and while standing 
under a tree, one foot happening to be near an 
ant's nest, the alarmed inhabitants sallied forth, 
and in less than two minutes completely covered 
my leg. I had not before heard the Hottentots 
complain so much of the intensity of the heat as 
they did during this day. 
At five p. M. we departed, and soon entered a 
narrow pass through a thicket of trees. The 
leader of the foremost waggon, a boy about four- 
teen years of age, was exceedingly afraid to enter 
the thicket, from a dread of meeting with lions. 
We halted at two o'clock in the morning. 
All awoke before sun-rise, for all were hungry, 
none of us having tasted any thing for fifteen 
hours. An ox which had lingered behind, and in 
consequence of the darkness had not been ob- 
served, came up quietly to the waggons. The bed 
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