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HUNTING ADVENTUBWJ. 



BLBSBOK. 



CHAPTER XLIII. 



HUNTING THE BLESBOK AND BOAR. 



TlHE blesbok, says Mr. Cam* 

 ming, in his manners and 

 habits, very much resembles the 

 springbok, which, however, it 

 greatly exceds in size, being as 

 large as an English fallow-deer. 

 It is one of the true antelopes, and 

 all its movements and paces par- 

 take of the grace and elegance 

 peculiar to that species. Its color 

 is similar to that of the sassayby, its skin being beautifully painted 

 with every shade of purple, violet, and brown. Its belly is of the 

 purest wjiite, and a broad white band, or " blaze," adoi as the entire 

 of its face. Blesboks differ from springboks in the determined 



