tains: they run away with prodigious ſwiftneſs upon the approach of a man.
The ape termed magot by Buffon (ſimia innuus, Linn.), ſometimes came very near to the houſe where we lodged. I once witneſſed a ſingular fact, which ſhews what authority theſe animals poſſeſs over their young. A large ape that was followed by a very little one, thinking himſelf unobſerved, took it up in one of his paws and beat it for a conſiderable ſpace of time with the other. If the apes knew how to proportion the puniſhment to the offence, the cub muſt have been very naughty; for he got a moſt ſevere beating.
The olive-coloured thruſh, and the ſtarling of the Cape of Good Hope, with ſome wood-peckers, &c. were the birds I moſt frequently ſaw during this excurſion.
As our departure from the Cape was fixed to take place very ſoon, we were obliged to leave Franche Hoek much ſooner than we could have wiſhed. We were in ſuch haſte to return to the town, that we bade adieu to our worthy hoſt Jacob de Villiers, at ten o'clock in the evening, and immediately ſet out on our journey. We marched the whole night through, and at length arrived at the ſame hour of the following evening in the town, having travelled by way of the Paarl-Berg and Paarde-Berg. Such a forced march
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