64 GAZELLE OR ANTELOPE. 
the name Zebu, which means an Ox, is ob- 
viously the Ze or Tze, of the Hebrew, which 
the translators of the Bible have rendered by 
Roe or Roe Deer, and which critics have 
said, should have been rendered by Gazelle 
or Antelope.* But, further, as the several 
names of all animals are confounded, so also 
are their attributes. That beauty of the 
eyes, which the Arabs attribute to the Ga- 
zelle or Antelope, the ancient Greeks attri- 
buted to the Cow; and with us, in Hng- 
land, it is said, that the most beautiful of all 
eyes are those of the Stag! Lastly, you 
must be informed, that the name ‘ Cow,’ or 
‘ Ghau,’ in its original sense, is not the name 
of the female, but of the species; in the 
same manner that ‘ Mare’ is an origina! name 
of the whole species of the ‘ Horse.’ In the 
present case, the Nyl-Ghau, or Blue, or | 
Grey Cow or Bull,t is the male only; for 
* Tze is, to this day, a native African name of the 
Antelope. 
+ Called also the White Antelope, as well as An- 
telope Picta, or Painted; the latter upon account of 
the white spots upon the neck and sides, and each 
fore-foot of the male; and of two white bars, and 
