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Pliny relates that ^Ethiopia produces winged horses, armed 

 with horns named Pegasi. Fathers Gallini and Carli ob- 

 serve that, " On the road to Loando in the kingdom of 

 Congo, they saw two Pacasses, which are animals very 

 similar to buffaloes, roaring like lions * the male and fe- 

 male being always together. They are white with rufous 

 and black spots ; with ears half a yard in length, and the 

 horns always straight. When they see human beings they 

 do not flee, nor do they harm, but stand and look on." 

 Lopes describes them as somewhat less than an ox, but 

 similar in head and neck. Dapper reports them to be buf- 

 faloes of a reddish colour with long horns. 



These testimonies are very vague, but still indicate 

 one and the same animal, partially misrepresented. 

 To these accounts might be added the notice of Cap- 

 tain Lyons respecting the Wadan, " a fierce buf- 

 falo, the size of an ass, having large tufts of hair 

 on the shoulders, and very long heavy horns." This 

 Arabic name seems derived from ^ waad, braying or 

 bellowing like a young camel, and may coincide with 

 Carli's account of the roar of Pacasse and the tufted 

 hair on the shoulders be no unapt representation of Pliny's 

 pretended wings of his Pegasus ; but no place would have 

 been deservedly given to these observations in this work, 

 if, in the collection of drawings formerly the property of 

 Prince John Maurice of Nassau, now in the Berlin library, 

 there was not among the number of zoological subjects of 

 Brazil, several of Angola, such as sheep and an African 

 elephant, which latter cannot have been executed from a 

 specimen in America. The sheep also have their Congo 

 and Angola names, and it may be fairly conjectured, that 

 the prince during his command in Brazil, had an artist on 

 the African 4 coast, from whence, at that time, slaves were 

 beginning to be abundantly transported to the Dutch set- 

 tlements. Among these, is a figure of a ruminant with 



