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Chamelions were plentifully caught, but none lived more than a 
month on board the vessel, whether fed with flies, or not at all. 
The changes of those I watched seemed confined to the shades 
between a very dark, dusky green, and a bright yellow ; when 
placed on any black substance they became the former, and when 
any thing light approached them, they changed to a bright green, 
which hue, if the substance was yellow, was interspersed with the 
most brilhant spots of that colour. I could not discern that they 
ever acquired a tinge of blue or red ; when at rest in their cage, 
their color was dark green, mottled with still darker spots. 
In my rambles about the environs of Naango, I formed some 
idea of the general face of vegetation in Empoongwa. Being 
the rainy season, of course it did not possess its usual beauty. 
The red wood trees abounded, with many which were new to me. 
The Mangroves clothed the banks of the creeks and river, even 
growing some yards from the banks in the water, and their lower 
branches frequently covered with oysters. The palm wine tree 
was plentiful. Like most parts of Western Africa, the woods were 
so covered beneath with shrubs and plants, that they seemed im- 
agile: car illevoit des choses Jbrt pesanies ^ les portoit d'un lieu en un autre, Le de- 
vant de son corps etoit nud, mais le dos etoit convert de poil noir. Sa face avoit quelque 
chose d"'humain, mais son nez etoit plat & retrousse. Ses oreilles, son sein, et ses ma- 
melles, ses coudes ses mains, le bas de son ventre & ses parties naturelles, ses jambes & 
ses pieds resembloient parfaitement a ceux d'une femme, parce que c'etoit un animal fe- 
melle. // se tenoit debout 8f marchoit souvent tout droit ; il huvoit Jbrt proprement, por- 
tant, d'une main le pot d la bouche et le soutenant de T autre; il se couchoit de mime, met- 
toit sa tete sur un chevet, c0ustoit la couverfure sur son corps, 8^ die voir ainsi ktendu on 
Tauroit pris pour un homme. Aussi les Negres rapportent-ils des choses prodigieuses de 
cet animal ; ils assurent qu'il force des femmes & des filles, 8} qu'il ose s'en prendre d des 
hommes armez. Et selon toutes les apparences c'est la ce Satyre si celebre chez les 
Anciens, dont Pline & les poetes ont tant parle par oui-dire h sur des rapports uicer- 
tains. 
