17;7;5 * the courage, to attack mankind; though one caunot reckon September, one’s felf akfolutely.fafe from their depredations. Neither wolves nor -black monkies are very common here, i have already told the reader what I know concerning thefe animals. The fort o f badger to which 1 allude» is called by-the inha- :bitapts berg-’uarken,,,or, mountain-pig. Thefe animals are .laid to be-found likewiie nearer the Cape, and have a long, extremely harih, and fomcwhat blackiih coat. I was told, that they are about a foot and a half high, and have their holes-and hiding-places underneath , ftpnes,,; and particularly on the tops o f mountains, from whence they never peep out but o f nights. I had not the good fortune to fee any o f them. This animal muft not be confounded with the qard^varken, or earth-pig, which,, probably, is a fpecies of manis (the lezard ecailleux of Bufjfon,) -and which is faid-to be found: in confiderable numbers in the diftridt of, Zwartland. There have been, in all likelihood here, formerly hart- beefts, as Hartbeejl-drift, a fmall ftream in this part o f the country, has its name from thofe animals. The bofch-bock (or wood-goat) Plate VI. Vol. II. is a fpecies o f antilope or gazel, which has been hitherto unknown to all the cultivators o f natural hiitory, whether ancient or modern, till I dcfcribed it in the Memoirs o f the Swediih Academy for the year 1780, quarter 3d, by the name of aniilope fylvatica. This animal has obtained-the name it goes by, in confequence o f its being the only one among the gazels in Africa, which may be properly faid to live in the woods and groves; excepting, however, Mr. Pennant’s nant’s antilope royal; unlefs, indeed, this little animal be g orn the fame with the gnometle of the colonifts, or belong to the gaze! genus. Groot Vader-bofcb and Houtniquas-bofcb, were the only forefts in which I faw and gave chace to the bofch-bok. In other places, whether nearer to or farther from the Cape, it is hardly to be found, i f not fomewhere in Sit/ikamma. It would, perhaps, be not difagreeable to zoologifts, to find in this place a deicription o f this rare fpecies o f gazel', and though I had no opportunity to make a drawing o f it, otherwife than from a couple o f thefe creatures ikins, and from the obfervations I could make on it While it was running by me; yet I am apt to believe, that it may be pretty well depended on, and that, at leaft, it will be fufficient to affift the zoologifts in their fyftematic researches. With refpeft to its fize, the bofch-bok is fomewhat above two feet and a half high. From feeing it run, and from What I can conclude from the ikins, it appears to me, that the body of this animal, when compared with the whole height of it, or with the. length o f its legs, is fomewhat more bulky than that of the other kinds o f gazel. The meafure o f the drefied ikin, from which both the defcription and drawing are chiefly, taken, was as follows : The horns ten inches and a half long; their diftance from each other at the bale one inch ; the diftance between the tips as well as the middlemoft parts of them three inches and a half; the ears were half the length of the horns, or five inches; the breadth of the forehead from eye to eye three inches; from the eyes to the horns one inch; from
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