By the kindness of Dr. Smith, I am enabled to show 35 that the case is very different. He informs me, that in lat. 24, in one days march with the bullock-wagons, he saw, without wandering to any great distance on either side, between one hundred and one hundred and fifty rhinoceroses - the same day he saw several 40 herds of giraffes, amounting together to nearly a hundred. At the distance of a little more than one hours march from their place of encampment on the previous night, his party actually killed at one spot eight hippopotamuses, and saw many more. In this 45 same river there were likewise crocodiles. Of course it was a case quite extraordinary, to see so many great animals crowded together, but it evidently proves that they must exist in great numbers. Dr. Smith describes the country passed through that day, as being thinly 50 covered with grass, and bushes about four feet high, and still more thinly with mimosa-trees.
Besides these large animals, every one the least acquainted with the natural history of the Cape, has read of the herds of antelopes, which can be 55 compared only with the flocks of migratory birds.
The numbers indeed of the lion, panther, and hyena, and the multitude of birds of prey, plainly speak of the abundance of the smaller quadrupeds: one evening seven lions were counted at the same time 60 prowling round Dr. Smiths encampment. As this able naturalist remarked to me, the carnage each day in
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