- 1.776. January. k / r o to the high flavour and drynefs of the meat, to bear forqe refemhlance to the fielh o f the hare. : - The Jleen-bok is of a reddiih colour, with a white fpiot over its eyes, and is probably a variety o f Mr. P e n n a n t ’s red antilope. Hift. of Quadrupeds, page 76. The grys-bok is o f a greyiih colour, with black ears, and a large black fpot round the eyes, being probably the A. Grimmia. Spicil. Zool. I. p. 8. Tab. IIIL The klipfpringer is of a light red colour, inclining to yellow, and intermixed with black ftreaks; the tips and edges o f its ears are black. The tails of thefe animals were very ihort; the horns of all the males; i f I remember right, are rather ihorter than their ears, being in fome meafure ftraight, and at the fame time round, fmooth, lharp-pointed, black, and Handing at a great diftance from each other, though probably they vary in their poiition. The klipfpringer has obtained the name it bears., from the circumftance o f its running with the greateft volocity, and making large bounds even on the fteepeft precipices and in the moil rocky places; lb,that, like the other two, it cannot be eafily caught with hounds. In this refpedl it refembles Mr. P e n n a n t ’s fwifft antilope, 1. c. As for the duyker-bok, or diving goat, I have only had a Angle glimpfe o f it. The colour o f it feemed to be dark brown, and its manner of running in the higheft degree lingular; as the animal would make a bound at intervals, riling in its leap with its neck eredt, and in its defcent bringing it down between its legs, and then continuing its courfe on the ground. This, perhaps, among the bulhes, had the appearance o f diving, and gave rife to its name. Apes, Apes, or baboons, relide in conliderable numbers in the woody part of the mountain, at the foot of which runs O v J little Vifcb-rivier. They are faid to have long canine teeth or tuiks, and to be very fwifl of foot, nimble, llrong, and •difficult to kill, fo that they will fometimes even force the tigers to quit their hold, and part with their lives to the hounds at a dear rate. On this account the colonifts are not very fond of hunting them. One day, however, when feveral baboons made their appearance very near the farm where we were lodged, I perfuaded my hoft to fet his dogs upon them. One of thefe baboons, which feemed rather in years and inactive, and perhaps was not able to reach ■the mountains fo foon as the reft, took refuge in a low tree ■down in the plain. My piece was at this time loaded with what they call Jleen-bok lhot, or ihot about the lize o f a common pea; and with thefe, at the diftance o f fifteen paces only, I hit the animal in the left breaft; notwithftanding which, the creature, though mortally wounded, was able to Hay in the tree feveral minutes, and during that time did not utter the leaft cry or groan. At laft, when it was obliged to quit its hold on the tree, the dqgs fell upon it before it came to the ground. I now found that there was very good foundation for what I had been formerly told, viz. that there was no fpecies o f hunting in which the dogs ihew fo much fury and malice as in the chafe of monkies or baboons; ours having wounded the animal in a moll terrible manner, before they could be made to quit it. The head of this creature very much re- fembled that of a dog, and its tuiks were about half an inch long ; the colour of the hair was a yellowilh brown; V ol. II. G g the
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