WHITE CATTLE: AN INQUIRY INTO THEIR ORIGIN, ETC. 403 
White Cattle: An Inquiry into their Origin and History. 
By R. Hepcer WALLACE. 
[Read 27th December, 1898. ] 
Part Is. 
I now pass on to note what might be considered the historical 
data on which some of the statements already made have been 
based (pp. 220-273). The endeavour has been made to place 
them in some order, but it is not claimed that the arrangement 
is chronological. 
We obtain some information from comparing the Authorised 
and Revised Versions of the Bible,’ and the explanatory aids to 
the same by our modern divines. The first thing noticeable in 
comparing the two is that the wild bull and unicorn of the one 
have become the antelope and wild ox of the other. For 
example :— 
Authorised Version of 1611. Revised Version of 1885. 
(a) The hart, and the roebuck, (a) “... the hart, and the 
and the fallow-deer, and the wild gazelle, and the roebuck, and the 
goat, and the pygarg,? and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and 
wild ox, and the chamois.”— the antelope, and the chamois.” — 
Deut. xiv. 5. Deut. xiv. 5. 
(b) *‘as a wild bull in a net.” (b) ‘fasan antelope ina net.”— 
—Isa. li. 20. Isa. li. 20. 
Canon Tristram, writing on this point, says: “ Wild Bull”—the 
word so rendered is neither the bison nor the buffalo, but some 
species of large antelope, formerly much more common than now. 
It is probably Alcephalus bubalis, the bubale or “ wild cow ” of the 
Arabs. <A writer in the Edinburgh Review (1886) also points 
this out, and further states that the white antelope (Oryx leucorya), 
still found on the confines of Palestine, was hunted by the ancient 

Egyptians, who also kept large numbers of them in the preserves 
of their villas. It was known to them as the ‘‘ white antelope.” 
1 According to the Bible the Jews. were enjoined to sacrifice ‘‘ a red 
heifer without spot.”—Numbers xix. 2. 
2 Or bison (Heb. Dishon). 
