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'X\\Q Arahs place likewife among the Behher el Wajlj ^ a^neir Deer- 

 Species of the Deer-Kind, which hath the Horns exadly in the 

 Fafhion of the Stags, but is in Size only betwixt the Red and 

 Fallow Deer. Thofe, which I havefeen, were caught in the 

 Mountains near Skigata, and appeared to be of the fame mild and 

 tradable Nature with the Behher el IVafj. The Female, hav- 

 ing no Horns, is called in Derilion, {Vortafs u-^b'] The Broad 

 Scalps or Scaird Head. 



The Fi/JjiUl or Lerwee, is the moll timorous Species of the r^ Finiraii 

 Goat-Kind, plunging Itfelf, when purfued, down Rocks and"'^"'^^^' 

 Precipices. It is of the Bignefs of an Heifer of a Year old ; 

 but hath a rounder turn of Body; with a Tuft of fliagged Hair 

 Upon the Knees and Neck ; this near aFoot, the other only about 

 five Inches long. It agreeth in Colour with the Behker elWaJJj ; 

 but the Horns are wrinkled and turned back like the Goats; 

 from which likewife they differ in being more than a Foot 

 long, and divided only, upon their ifluing out of the Forehead, 

 by a fmall Strip of Hair as in the Sheep-Kind. The Ftjhtdll, 

 from It's Size, Shape, and other Circumftances, feems to be 

 th&Tragelaphus' of the Antients; an Animal, we are to fup-r-^fTrageh- 

 pofe, fuch as this is , betwixt a Goat and a Deer. Tliny in- ^''"'" 

 deed obferveth that It was peculiar to the Banks of the Thafis ; 

 a Miftake probably of the fame Kind with what immediately 

 follows, that the Stag w'as not an Animal of Africa. 



Belides the common Gazell or Antilope , (which is well r^^ Gazeii 

 known in Europe,) this Country likewife produceth another"'^^""''^^' 

 Species, of the fame Shape and Colour, though of the Bignefs 

 of our Roe-Buck, and with Horns fometimes of two foot long. 

 This thQ Africans call Lidmee, and may, I prefume, be theg^L^^'^J^ee, 

 Strepfweros^ and Addace of the Antients. Bochart , from"!;?' "'^ 

 the fuppofed Whitenefs of the Buttocks, finds a great Affinity 

 betwixt the Addace \ I have mentioned, and the [j^^^'] Difon, 

 which, in 7)euf. 14. s- our Tranflation renders the Tjgarg, after 

 the Septuagmt and Vulgate Verfions. 



1 Eadem eft Specie, (cum Cervo fc.) barba tantum & armorum villo diftans, qucm 

 Tragelapbon vocanc, non alibi, quam juxta P/><t/j» amnem, nafcens. Cervos Africa prope- 

 modum fola non gignit. ?lin. 1. 8. cap. 33. 2 Cflr««<« ereda, rugarumque ambitu contortaj 

 & in Icve faftigium exacuta (ut Lyras diceres) Strepficerot't, qucm Addacem Africa appcllat, 

 natura dedh. Pitn. l.ii. cap. 27. 3 A cinereo nempe colore, qui Hefersis f\i>T Difen di- 

 citur. Boch. Hieroz., I.3. cap. 2, 



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