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Some account of the Cape of Good Hope

a vivarium or Menagerie, supported also at the expence of the Company  where rare Beasts & birds are kept  here were Ostrigdes  Cassowaris  Antilopes of several kinds  Zebras & several other animals seldom or never seen in Europe  particularly that calld by the Hottentots Coedoe whose beautifull spiral horns are often brought over to Europe  this animal who was as large as a horse died while we were there but not before I had had time to get a description & drawing of him

Near this enclosure is another for birds  in which were the Crownd Pidgeons of Banda & several more rare birds especialy of the Duck kind  of which were indeed a very fine collection  both birds & beasts were very carefully & well taken care of

It remains now after having describd the town & its environs to say a little of the Countrey about it  of this indeed I can say but little & even for that little am
 

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