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THE TRAVELS OF
our quiet was again diſturbed by the nocturnal invaſion of the jackals that infeſt this country, ferocious animals not unlike the European fox; they flocked into our camp in the ſilent midnight hour, carried off a great part of the poultry, and ſuch young children as they could come at it was in vain to purſue them; we were obliged to endure our loſſes with patience.
Having diſpatched the proper people to ſupply the markets, we left Fulwherea early on the eighth morning after our arrival, and proceeded on our march towards Chrimnaſa which lay about ninety miles farther off. We reached Turwherea, on the firſt day's march,
where
