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abundant, this was done so much at the leisure of the Co- 

 lonists, that notwithstanding the invariable endeavours of 

 this game to fly to windward, they would drive it in the 

 direction of their own homes, and bring it down only when 

 they judged it convenient for their servants to transport 

 the carcass into the house. If they pushed the animal too 

 keenly, it was subject to drop down dead, melted tallow 

 running out at the nostrils ; these are the causes which 

 make the females appear occasionally without a male, but 

 this cannot be long, for the species is asserted to have no 

 regular rutting period, the females being found in calf all 

 the year round. 



At present the Impoof is mostly found amid the rocks of 

 the Karoo districts, along with Gnoos, Guaggas, and Os- 

 triches, galloping clumsily, but leaping and traversing 

 broken ground with considerable facility. It is by nature 

 docile, and readily tamed, but though its strength is great, 

 the shoulders do not seem to have sufficient solidity to bear 

 the labours of domesticity with advantage to the agricul- 

 turist. The flesh and marrow are highly esteemed, and the 

 hides of the males considered excellent for traces and other 

 coarse and strong gear. We have compared a living spe- 

 cimen with several skins, and many heads and horns. The 

 name of Coesdoes or Condoma of Buffon, belongs to a dif- 

 ferent species, and seems derived from the Hottentot 

 K'gojes, signifying a cow ; but the real name in that lan- 

 guage is T'ganna, or T'gaun, and in the Caffre dialect Im- 

 poofo. The Dutch have bestowed a most improper name 

 on it, solely derived from its stature, it is that of Eland or 

 Elk. 



The Carina. (D. Carina.) There is a second animal of 

 this group, as yet but little known, and vaguely noticed by 

 travellers as a variety, but which, upon examination, is found 

 to be possessed of characters, fairly entitled to claim a dif- 

 ference of species. We designate it by the name of Canna, 



