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] tains: they run away with prodigious wiftnes upon the approach of a man.

The ape termed magot by Buffon (imia innuus, Linn.), ometimes came very near to the houe where we lodged. I once witneed a ingular fact, which hews what authority thee animals poes over their young. A large ape that was followed by a very little one, thinking himelf unoberved, took it up in one of his paws and beat it for a coniderable pace of time with the other. If the apes knew how to proportion the punihment to the offence, the cub mut have been very naughty; for he got a mot evere beating.

The olive-coloured thruh, and the tarling of the Cape of Good Hope, with ome wood-peckers, &c. were the birds I mot frequently aw during this excurion.

As our departure from the Cape was fixed to take place very oon, we were obliged to leave Franche Hoek much ooner than we could have wihed. We were in uch hate to return to the town, that we bade adieu to our worthy hot Jacob de Villiers, at ten o'clock in the evening, and immediately et out on our journey. We marched the whole night through, and at length arrived at the ame hour of the following evening in the town, having travelled by way of the Paarl-Berg and Paarde-Berg. Such a forced march could