Life and Travels of Mungo Park In Central Africa With Accents

amphibious, with short and thick legs, and cloven hoofs: it feeds on grass, and such shrubs as the banks of the river afford, boughs of trees, seldom venturing far from the water, in which it seeks refuge on hearing the approach of man. I have seen many, and always found them of a timid and inoffensive disposition. In six days after leaving Vintain, we reached Jonkakonda, a place of considerable trade, where o