v - his Journey into Africa. 41 
afterwards had reafon to doubt it, thofe iflands being 
fuppofed to lie in a more foutherly latitude. 
I have had opportunities of making many curious and 
Valuable Obfervations relative to the different tribes of 
Hottentots, their oeconomy, hunting-matches, and other 
puftoms.; an account of which, together with fome re- 
marks on the natural hiitory of the elephant, the rhino- 
ceros, and other animals, I intend to prepare for the prefs. 
I am poffefied of an accurate map of that part of Africa 
which I have vifited, containing all the hills, together 
with the fmalleft rivulets, as far as the Bay de la Goa, 
which, I think, will be a great addition to the work. I 
only regret that I was not able to draw the objedls of 
natural hiitory, and have an hundred times wifhed that 
your fon had been with me for this purpofe. 
As I had been upwards of nine months on this journey, 
at my return to the Cape I found that my acquaintance had 
given up all hopes of feeing me again, having had no tidings 
of me for fo lbng a fpace of time. Notwithstanding the 
many dangers to which I had been expofed on this expedi- 
tion, failure you I was greatly tempted to ftay another year, 
in hopes of being more fuccefsful in botanical difcoveries. 
However, the profpect of fecuring the fpoils which I had 
collected, prevailed on me to relinquifh that fcheme. 
Indeed I little thought at that time that the greatest 
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