92 COMMON GOAT. 



Pigmy Antelope. At the same time that it is the 

 smallest, this Antelope is indisputably the most elegant i 

 of all the cloven-footed quadrupeds. Its height is seldom 

 more than from nine to twelve inches, and its legs are ( 

 scarcely thicker than the stem of a tobacco-pipe. Its 

 fleetness is indescribable ; and its agility such, that, asto- ) 

 nishing as the fact may seem, it is able to spring over i 

 obstacles which are more than twelve times its own \ 

 height. These animals are very numerous in some parts I 

 of Guinea. They are easily tamed, and, in this state, 

 soon become entertaining and familiar ; but their delicacy 

 of habit is such, that all the attempts which have hitherto 

 been made to bring them alive into, and keep them in 

 Europe, have failed. 



They are of a reddish-brown colour, and have jet-black 

 horns, which are conically pointed, twisted, wrinkled at 

 the bases, and about two inches long. 



37. GOAT TRIBE. 



In their general habits, as wild animals, the Goats 

 very nearly resemble the antelopes. They live chiefly in 

 retired and mountainous situations ; and have a rank and 

 unpleasant smell. 



Common Goat. In various parts of the continent 

 the Goat is an invaluable domestic, particularly in rocky 

 and mountainous situations, which would not afford 

 nutriment for oxen and cows. To the inhabitants of 

 such countries their milk affords cheese, and their flesh 

 an almost indispensable food. Few animals are so 

 hardy, and, on the whole, require so little attention and 

 care. Their constitution is equally uninjured by the 

 frozen climates of the north, and the arid regions of the 

 torrid zone. They spring about amongst the rocks with 



