BONTE-BOK.—Damalis pygarga. 
body is washed with a bluish-grey. It lives in small herds of six or ten, in the flat 
districts near the tropic of Capricorn, and is a most welcome sight to the wearied hunter 
when perishing with thirst. There are many Antelopes which are almost independent of 
water, and can quench their thirst by means of the moist roots and bulbs on which they 
feed. But the Sassaby is a thirsty animal, and needs to drink daily, so that whenever the 
hunter sees one of these animals he knows that water is at no great distance. It is rather 
persecuted by the hunters, as its flesh is in great esteem; but as it soon becomes shy and 
wary, is not easily to be killed. 
Concerning one of these animals, Cumming gives the following curious anecdote. 
“ Having shot a Sassaby as I watched the water, he immediately commenced choking 
from the blood, and his body became swelled in a most extraordinary manner: it continued 
swelling with the animal still alive, until it literally resembled a fisherman’s float, when the 
animal died of suffocation. It was not only his body that swelled in that extraordinary 
manner, but even his head, and lees down to his knees.” The poor animal must 
have been shot through the lungs in such a manner that the air was forced by its 
efforts at respiration between the skin and flesh, until it assumed that puffy aspect. 
THE regularly lyrate horns of the BonrE-Box, or NUNNI, seem to distinguish it from 
its congener the sassaby. 
The colour of the Bonte-bok is a purplish-red, the outside of the limbs deepening into 
a rich blackish-brown, and contrasting strongly with the white hair which appears upon the 
face, the haunches, and front of the legs. From the vividly contrasting tints of the coat, 
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