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The zebra that had been (liot was left at the foot of the hill 
until our return, when it was the intention to have taken oft 
the fkin. We had not been abfent from it more than an hour, 
in which fpace of time it had been completely evifcerated by a 
troop of vultures, confifting of the condor, the percnopterus, 
white crow, and the vulturlne crow ; yet in no part of the 
body was the fkin broken, except that the hole in the neck, 
where the ball had entered, was a little enlarged. Out of this 
hole a great part of the entrails had been drawn. The animal 
was a female, and its full-grown foal had been dragged by the 
vultures more than half out of the vagina. It feems that the 
facred bird of Egypt is a kind of caterer to the condor, and is 
employed in drawing the carcafes of animals, whilft the other 
fits by " to prey on garbage." 
In the evening we reached a farm-houfe, fituated on the (kirts 
of the colony, in the divifion of the Sea-Cow river and the 
Rhinofceros-berg, where, after a very long day's journey, our 
waggons alfo arrived. In this pare of the country are ftill a 
number of families that, like the people of Sneuwberg, have 
withftood the attacks of the Bosjefmans, by keeping together 
and affording to each other mutual affiftance. The wealth of 
the farmers here confifts of fheep and horned cattle j all their 
crops were entirely deftroyed by the locufts. 
At this place the party that had accompanied us was dif- 
charged ; but, as it was the intention to fkirt the colony to the 
eaftward, and pafs through the deferted divifion of the Tarka, 
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