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they have a tuft of hair, which is longer than 

 that of any part of the body. Like others of 

 the same kind, the antelope is brown on the 

 back, and white under the belly ; but these 

 colours are not separated by the black streak 

 which is to be found in all the rest of the ga- 

 zelle kinds. There are different sorts of this 

 animal, some with larger horns than others, and 

 others with less. The one which makes the 

 eleventh varietyin the gazelle kind, Mr. Buffon 

 calls the lidme, which has very long horns ; 

 and the other, which is the twelfth and last, 

 he calls the Indian antelope, the horns of which 

 are very small. 



To these may be added three or four varie- 

 ties more, which is not easy to tell whether to 

 refer to the goat or the gazelle, as they equally 

 resemble both. The first of these is theoH&a- 

 /ws,an animal that seems to partake of the mix- 

 ed natures of the cow, the goat, and the deer. 

 It resembles the stag in the size and the figure 

 of its body, and particularly in the shape of its 

 legs. But it has permanent horns, like the 

 goat ; and made entirely like those of the ga- 

 zelle kind. It also resembles that animal in 

 its way of living : however, it differs in the 

 make of its head, being exactly like the cow in 

 the length of its muzzle, and in the disposition 

 of the bones of its skull ; from which similitude 

 it has taken its name. This animal has a nar- 

 row long head ; the eyes are placed very high ; 

 the forehead short and narrow ; the horns per- 

 manent, about a foot long, black, thick, annu- 

 Iated,and the rings of the gazelle kind,remark- 

 bly large ; its shoulders are very high, and it 

 has a kind of bunch on them, that terminates 

 at the neck ; the tail is about a foot long, and 

 tufted with hair at the extremity. The hair 

 of this animal is remarkable in being thicker 

 at the middle than at the root : in all other 

 quadrupeds, except the elk and this, the hair 

 tapers off from the bottom to the point ; but 

 in these, each hair seems to swell in the middle, 

 like a nine-pin. The bubalus also resembles 

 the elk in size, and the colour of its skin ; but 

 these are the only similitudes between them : us 

 the one has a very large branching head of solid 

 horns that are naturally deciduous, the other has 

 black unbranching hollow horns that never fall. 

 The bubalus is common enough in Barbary, 

 and has often been called by the name of the 

 barbary cow, from which animal it differs so 

 widely. It partakes pretty much of the nature 



of the antelope; like that having the hair short, 

 the hide black, the ears pointed, and the flesh 

 good for food. 



The second anomalous animal of the goat- 

 kind, Mr. Buffon calls the condoma. It is sup- 

 posed to be equal in size to the largest stag, 

 but with hollow horns, like those of the goat 

 kind, and with varied flexures, like those of the 

 antelope. They are above three feet long ; 

 and at their extremities about two feet asunder. 

 All along the back there runs a white list, 

 which ends at the insertion of the tail ; another 

 of the same colour crosses this, at the bottom 

 of the neck, which it entirely surrounds : there 

 are two more of the same kind running round 

 the body, one behind the fore-legs, and the 

 other running parallel to it before the hinder. 

 The colour of the rest of the body is grayish, 

 except the belly, which is white : it has also a 

 long gray beard ; and its legs, though long, 

 are well proportioned. 



The third that may be mentioned, he calls 

 the guiba. It resembles the gazelles in every 

 particular, except in the colour of the belly, 

 which, as we have seen, is white in them, but 

 in this is of a deep brown. Its horns also are 

 not marked with annual prominences, but are 

 smooth and polished. It is also remarkable 

 for white lists, on a brown ground, that are 

 disposed along the animal's body, as if it were 

 covered with harness. Like the former it is a 

 native of Africa. 



The African wild goat of Grimmius is the 

 fourth. It is of a dark ash-colour ; and in the 

 middle of the head is a hairy tuft, standing 

 upright ; on both sides, between the eyes and 

 the nose, there are very deep cavities, greater 

 than those of the other kinds, which contain a 

 yellow oily liquor, which coagulates into a 

 black substance, that has a smell betweeen 

 musk and civet. This being taken away, the 

 liquor again runs out, and coagulates, as be- 

 fore. These cavities have no communication 

 with the eyes, and, consequently, this oozing 

 substance can have nothing of the nature of 

 tears. 



To this we may add the chevrotin, or little 

 guinea deer, which is the least of all cloven 

 footed quadrupeds, and perhaps the most beau- 

 tiful ; its legs, at the smallest part, are not 

 much thicker than the shank of a tobacco- 

 pipe ; it is about seven inches high, and about 

 twelve from the point of the nose to the inser- 

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