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perfedtiy ftrait, the lower half of it at the fame tíme being diftinguiihed by twenty, or more craggy wavy rings projecting above the furface. The upper half is fmooth, and goes off tapering by degrees to a iharp point, the diameter o f the bafe being about an inch and a half. In other re- fpedts, this creature is defcribed both by Mr. Pennant, and in the above-mentioned compilation, as being-©i arx afh colour fomewhat inclining to red ; the belly, legs, and face are white; but the fpaces juft before and round about the horn, together with the fore part of the upper extremity of the nofe, and the lower part of the forehead, are black, or black bordering upon brown; there alfo goes from the eyes to the chin a hrownifh black ftripe, which is connected by another o f the fame hind with the above- mentioned fpot on the nofe and forehead. This annual is likewife faid to be of a dark colour on the fhoulders, a little: on the fore part of the tegs, on thofe parts where the belly terminates in the fules, on the tail itfdf, and all along the hack and the neck. The tail feems to reach to the hocks, and the hoofs appear to be of an. uncommon tength; f<V at lead, they are reprefentéd in the figures alluded to above. Kolbe’s dcicription of his elk (called the elend-tbier in the German edition, p. 1 4 5 ’) anfwers better in fome fort to this gazel than to that which is adtually known at the Gape by this name, and o f which I have giv,en a defcription; but whichever of thefe two it is that Kolbe means, his defcription is faulty at all events, and the weight he mentions, viz. 400 lb. is under the, re^l weight of the animal. But be that as it will, there is the molt manifeft manifeft abfurdity in K o l b e ’s affertion, that an animal of fuch a weight as this ihould be caught in a fpringe with a fmall cord/ and drawn up into the air. The blaauw-bok is alfo one o f the large fpecies of gazel, which, probably, are only to be found in- the fame diftridl With the g a zel yaft. defcribed ; excepting, perhaps, a fingle one, which may happen now and then by gieat chance to ftray from thefe parts: for at Krakeel-rivief, I found they had preferved a fkin o f this animal'. The coloiir of this Creature When alive is faid to refemble that o f blue Velvet, but when it is dead it is o f a lead colour. There is a beautiful figure o f it by the name of the Tzeiran, to be feen at p. 58 of the compilation I have frequently referred to. On this fubjedl the reader may likewife turrt to Mr. P en n a n t’s blue antilope, and M. P a l la s ’s antilope leuco- phsea; being thus called by the latter gentleman, from the circumftance o f its being marked with a large, white fpot juft before and beneath each eye. The hairs on the belly are long and white; the tail is fhort; the horns go backwards With a curve, being decorated with about twenty-four rings fo three-fourths o f their height 5 but the itppermoft quarter is fmooth, and goes off tapering by degrees to a point. The hunte-bok,- (the painted or pied goat) called by Mr. P e n n a n t the harnejfed antilope, and by M* P a l l a s antilope fcfip ta, 1 have already mentioned ill Vol. I, page 129, as being fomewhat lefs than the hartbeejl; and again at page 27 7, as being larger than the b&fcb-bok. The bunte- bok is not to be found any farther to the eaftward o f the Cape than Zwellendani \ but a farmer who had been in the country of fambuki informed me, that he had there again F f 8 feen 1776. January.


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