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stant as if suspended in the air, when down come all four 

 feet again together, and, striking the plain, away it soars 

 as if about to take flight." 



The Biibale. 



9. " I have," says Mr. Drtimmond, " personally ridden 

 down the eland on several occasions, though, as they are 

 the slowest antelope in Africa, it is no great feat to do so. 

 Sometimes a young cow in low condition will give one a 

 real gallop, there being much the same difference between 

 it and a corpulent old bull as between a wild young High- 

 land two-year-old able with ease to clear a five-barred gate 

 and a stall-fed ox fit for Smithfield." 



10. The giraffe, or camelopard, has its home in South- 



