BEAUTY OF GAZELLES 
a satisfaction to be able to record that many scattered herds 
of this stately species still exist in eastern Africa between the 
Transvaal and German East Africa; and as it is readily tamed, 
and seems able to breed in captivity, the world is not likely 
soon to lose its handsome presence. 
In the company of the sable and roan antelopes come the 
koodoos, which like most of the larger antelopes are wonder- 
ful jumpers. F. J. Jackson, in his ‘Big Game Shooting in 
Africa,” tells how he measured a jump by one of these ante- 
lopes to satisfy himself of its length. 
“She had been chased by a hyena,”’ he says, ‘‘along a narrow footpath 
in a dense bush. In the middle of the path was a thick green bush about 
five feet high, round which the path took a turn and then went straight on 
again. The kudu had taken a flying leap over this bush, and the distance 
between the spoor of her hindfeet, where she took off, and the edge of the 
bush, was fifteen feet. The diameter of the bush was six feet, and the dis- 
tance from the edge of the bush on the other side to where she landed — 
i.e. to the spoor-marks of her hindfeet— another ten feet, in all thirty- 
one feet. The hyena had given up the chase some thirty yards farther on.” 
Following these large antelopes come the small, delicate, 
active gazelles, which have furnished to Oriental poetry a 
type of gentle grace, and especially of beauty in 
the eye; it is therefore disconcerting to be informed 
by a matter-of-fact naturalist that ‘‘the beauty of its eyes is 
not to be compared with that of some other ruminating ani- 
mals, the whole face being far too sheeplike!” He referred 
to the common dorcas gazelle of Egypt and Syria, a fair type 
of the whole group, which is believed to contain twenty or 
twenty-five species, scattered from Morocco to India. It 
stands about twenty-four inches high and weighs sixty pounds. 
Gazelles. 
“Born in the scorching sun, nursed in the burning sand of the treeless 
and shadowless wilderness, the gazelle is among the antelope tribe as the 
Arab horse is among its brethren, — the high-bred and superlative beauty 
of the race. The skin is as sleek as satin, of a color difficult to describe, 
as it varies between the lightest mauve and yellowish brown; the belly is 
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