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" immediately after to be very sweet, water tasting 
" like white wine or sugar. Fifty of these would 
" buy a wife." 
Among wild animals, he mentions the lion, 
ounce, civet-cat, and porcupine. Of these the 
ounce appears to be the fiercest. Elephants were 
considered formidable by the natives ; but, from the 
Europeans, they fled "as fearefullasa forest stagge." 
Those who had killed elephants preserved their 
tails as monuments of their prowess. Wild bulls, 
wild boars, and antelopes, are also mentioned ; 
and he adds to the list, " beasts unknown." The 
monkeys and baboons were exceedingly numerous. 
The latter go in herds of three or four thousand, 
under the conduct of the largest ; one part of whom 
march in front, another bringing up the rear. * * Thus 
" doe they march on, and are very bold : and at 
" night take up their stands on the mountain tops, 
" or trees above us, where we might heare their 
" government, For often, in the night, you shall 
<£ hear many voices together, when instantly one 
" great voice exalts itself, and that noyse is all 
" husht." They are said to form, in the desert, 
arbours for their " dancing and disport," such 
that it would be impossible, in seeing them, to 
doubt having been made by the hands of men. 
In the forests, our author saw great variety of 
trees, but none that he could call " by an English 
" name." 
