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of prey, which I have frequently feen in broad day-light, 
and heard roaring about me at night, though they never 
ventured to attack our cattle. But it was chiefly among 
the antelopes and animals of that fort that I hunted. 
Mr. emelman and myfelf, with nine hottentots, a wag- 
gon drawn by feveral pairs of oxen, and feveral hunting 
horfes, happily traverfed a defart of fifty miles, where 
we had greater fport than any German prince could ever 
boaft of. On that route I penetrated farther into the 
country than any of my predeceflors, having gone one 
hundred miles beyond the laft Chriftian’s or Dutchman’s 
hut, into the diftrift of the Yellow' or (as they are vulgarly 
called) Chinefe Hottentots. 
The great buffaloes which inhabit the w r ilds of Africa, 
do not appear to me to differ in any refpedt from the North 
American Bifon , although I have feen great numbers of 
them. I have likewife found a fpecies of pole-cat on that 
continent which linn.<eus calls Viverra Putorius , con- 
trary to M. de buffon’s opinion, who feems to confine 
this animal and its fpecies to America. By the fea-fide I 
was fortunate enough to catch a -Manatee alive, not with - 
ftanding the difficulty which muff attend the capture of 
fuch an umveildy animal. There I likewife faw fome 
iflands, on which I was told an Englifh fhip had been 
loft. Thefe 1 fufpedfted at firft to be the Doddingtons ; but 
afterwards 
