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FROM NORTH POLE TO EQUATOR. 



This antelope may be regarded as typically a desert animal. 

 Although it is proportionate in all its parts, the head and sense- 

 organs seem almost too large, and the limbs too delicate, in fact 



Fig. 51.— Gazelles lying near a Mimosa. 



almost fragile. But this head carries a brain of unusual cleverness 

 for a ruminant, and those limbs are as if made of steel, exceedingly 

 strong and elastic, admirably suited for agility and untiring endur- 

 ance. One must not judge the gazelle of the desert from its ap- 



