THE ZEBU, 241 



one. I have alfo learned, from frefii inquiries, 

 that the zebu is probably the fame animal which 

 is called the Lant *, or Dant f, in Numidia, 

 and feveral other northern provinces of Africa, 

 where it is very common; and that the name 

 Dant, which folely pertains to the animal un- 

 der confideration, has been tranfported from A- 

 frica to America, and given to an animal which 

 has no refemblance to the former but in the frze 

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fhoulders a little elevated. The tail is terminated with loner 

 hairs, twice as coarfe as thofe of a horfe. — It is only a vari tjr 

 of the Indian ox ;" Pennant's Synopf. of quad. p. 9. 



Un moult beau petit boeuf d'Afrique ; Be/on, p. 119. 



Bos cornibus aurei brevioribus, dorfo gibbo, juba nulla ; 

 Linn. S)ft. Nat. p. 99. 



* Lant bovem fimiiitudine refert, minor tamen crurib 

 et cornibus elegantius ; colorem album gerit, unguibus ni- 

 gerrimis ; tantaeque velocitatis ut a reliquis animalibus, 

 praeterquam ab equo Barbarico, fnperari nequeat. Facijiiis 

 aeftate capitur quod arenae aeftu curfus velocitate ungues 

 dimoveantur, quo dolore affe&us curium remittit, &c. ; 1. 

 dfric. Africae dejeript. vol. 2. p. 75 1 . 



\ The Dant, which the Africans cali Lampt, is of the 



figure of a fmall ox, but its legs are (hort. It lias black 



horns, which bend round, and are flnooth. Its hair is 

 whitifh, and its hoofs are black and cloven. It is fo fwift 

 that no animal, unlefs the Barbary horfe, can overtake it. 

 Thefe animals are faid to be more eaiily taken in fummer ; 

 becaufe, by the force of running, their hoofs are worn a- 

 raong the burning fands, and the pain occafioned by this 

 circumftance makes them Mop Ihort, like the flags and faf 

 low deer of thefe deferts. There are numbers of thefe dan 

 in the deferts of Numidia and Lybia, and particularly in the 

 country of the Morabitains. Of their ikins the nal 

 make excellent fhields, the beft of which are proof ; 

 arrows. 



