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verable, but generally very difficult of accefs, and not fafe to 
approach. The kloofs or chafms, wafhed by torrents of water 
rufhing down the fteep fides of the high ftratified mountains, 
frequently leave a fucceffion of caverns, of which the Bosjef- 
man choofes the higheft, as not only removing him farther 
from the danger of a furprife, but giving him alfo the com- 
mand of a greater extent of country. 
In one of thefe retreats were difcovered their recent traces. 
The fires were fcarcely extinguifhed, and the grafs on which 
they had flept was not yet withered. On the fmooth fides of 
the cavern were drawings of feveral animals that had been 
made from time to time by thefe favages. Many of them 
were caricatures ; but others were too w^ell executed not to ar- 
reft attention. The different antelopes that were there deli- 
neated had each their charadler fo well difcriminated, that the 
originals, from whence the reprefentations had been taken, 
could, without any difficulty, be afcertained. Among the nu- 
merous animals that were drawn, was the figure of a zebra re- 
markably well done ; all the marks and chara£lers of this ani- 
mal were accurately reprefented, and the proportions were 
feemingly corred:. The force and fpirit of drawings, given to 
them by bold touches judicioufly applied, and by the effe^l of 
light and fhadow, could not be expecfted from favages ; but for 
accuracy of outline and corrednefs of the different parts, worfe 
drawings than that of the zebra have paffied through the engra- 
ver's hands. The materials with which they had been executed 
were charcoal, pipe-clay, and the different ochres. The ani- 
mals reprefented were zebras, qua-chas, gemfboks, fpringboks, 
reeboks, 
