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quently been fingled out from a party of Dutch. The latter 
being difguifed in clothing, and the former going generally 
naked, may perhaps account for it. The horfe, next to the 
Hottentot, feems to be his favorite food ; but on the fheep, 
perhaps on account of his woolly covering, which he is too in- 
dolent to uncafe, he feldom deigns to fix his paw. 
From the Cape to the Khamies berg, very little occurs in the 
animal kingdom to intereft the natural hiftorian, efpecially one 
who may have made a previous journey to the eaftward, where 
almoft the whole tribe of quadrupeds peculiar to Southern 
Africa may be met with. In a Namaaqua hut I obferved the 
fkin of a Jackal, with a black bufhy tail, that feemed to be 
different from any I had feen on the other fide of the continent. 
It was covered with thick fur. The dogs of the Namaaquas 
were of the fame fort as thofe of the Bosjefmans ; and it was 
here obferved of them, that their tails, contrary to the defcrip- 
tion of Linnseus, given as the fpecific character to the domeftic 
dog, were almoft invariably recurved on the right fide. 
In our defcent of the mountain, we were driven to feek (belter 
from the violence of the rain in a mixed horde of Baftaards and 
Namaaquas. The chief was of the former defcription. In his 
younger days he had been a great lover of the chace, and his 
matted hut within ftill difplayed a variety of the fkins of animals 
that had fallen before his piece. He boafted that, in one excur- 
fion, he had killed feven camelopardales and three white rhino- 
cerofes. The latter is not uncommon on the fkirts of the 
colony behind the Hantam mountain, and feems to be a variety 
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