OR GAZELLES. 409 



and the figure of it is given by Koempfer *. But, 

 in this figure, the horns are neither fufficiently 

 long nor ftraight. Befides, his defcription is by 

 no means exact ; for he fays that this bezoar a- 

 nimal has a beard like the he-goat, though he 

 has given it no beard in his figure ; which is 

 more confonant to truth, the want of a beard 

 being the chief characleriftic by which the anti- 

 lopes are diftinguifhed from the goats. This an- 

 tilope is of the fize of our domeftic he-goat, and 

 it refembles the flag in figure, colour, and agili- 

 ty. Befide two feparate horns, we have feen a 

 head of this animal to which the horns were at- 

 tached. The horns engraven in Aldrovandus's 

 work have a great refemblance to thofe of the 

 pafan. In general, the algazel and pafan feem 

 to be very near allied. They likewife belong 

 to the fame climate, and are found in the Le- 

 vant, Egypt, Perfia, Arabia, &c. But the alga- 

 zel inhabits the plains, and the pafan the moun- 

 tains. The flefh of both is excellent. 



The ninth antilope is an animal, which, accor- 

 ding to M. Adanfon, is called Nangueur or Nan- 



guer 



Jacobus Bontius (lib. I. de med. Indorum, notis ad cap. 



45.). Videtur figurae Bezoardici cormi mei propius accedere 

 dum ita fcribit : ' Caprae iftae non abfimiles valde funt capris 

 * Europaeis, nifi quod habeant eredra ac longiora cornua,' 

 &c. De cornu capri Bezoardici ; Obf. Jo. Dan. Majoris E- 

 phemer. ann. 8. 



* Koempfer, Amoenitates, p. 398. In Perfia, this kind 



of antilope is very numerous, and is called Bazar?, and the 

 ftone itfelf Bazar ; Voyage de la Ctmpagnk des Indes de Hollandc, 

 torn. 2. p. izi. 



