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a fingle horn. Many of the peafantry had frequently aflured 
me that unicorns were commonly found defigned among the 
reft ; but none of them as yet had been able to point out to me 
the drawing of fuch an animal, though we had vifited feveral 
caverns in the Bosjefmans country for that purpofe. If, how- 
ever, we were difappointed in not finding the objed that had 
been the occafion of the excurfion, we were amply repaid for 
the inconvenience and fatigue of eight hours' expofure to the 
fcorching rays of an unclouded fun, by a variety of other inte- 
refting fubjeds that were conftantly occurring. In no part of 
the journey had been found fuch an afTemblage of rare plants 
as grew on the fides of the Zuure-berg. The number and 
great variety of the geranium family, efpecially of that genus 
which, by a late botanical arrangement, has been named pelar- 
gonium, were truly aftonifliing. The xeranthemum fulgidum 
with its brilliant yellow flowers, and the ftill more fhewy fpe- 
ciofijfimum^ were equally numerous j not lefs fo many fpecies 
of the everlafting 'gnaphalium. Two fpecies of that very fin- 
gular and beautiful plant the difa^ found alfo on Table moun- 
tain, decorated the margins of the fprings upon the Zuure-berg. 
At the feet of the mountain, we procured one of the moft beau- 
tiful, and alfo one of the moft difgufting quadrupeds that are 
perhaps to be found in the whole creation. The firft, it would 
almoft be unneceflary to add, was the zebra, which we fhot in 
a troop confifting of fix ; and the latter was the bofch varke, or 
wild hog of Africa, defcribed in the Syjiema Natures under the 
name of fus Ethiopicus, This creature is not more ugly than 
it is vicious and cunning. The long ivory fangs that, like 
horns, proje(3: from its mouth, and bend upwards, make it dan- 
gerous 
