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corn, modified it so as to suit their own conceptions 
of its attributes of strength and agility; the limbs 
were lengthened, the heavy asinine proportions were 
reduced, the head was bent in the attitude of attack, 
and the horn, instead of growing backwards in the 
plane of the face, was represented as perpendicular 
to it, and springing directly out of the forehead. 
Such is the description of the fictitious animal still 
represented in the royal arms of England, and such 
seems to have been the origin and progress of the 
idea as originating in ancient Persia, and finally 
spreading over western Europe. ‘The female is 
much more slender and delicately formed, and the 
horns considerably longer than those of the male; 
and it is remarkable, that they possess the sagacity 
of rendering them very destructive as weapons of 
defence, by sharpening them to a fine point, while 
those of the young are perfectly blunt. 
The Korpog, (Antilope Strepciceros, Pallas.) 
While descending the Fish River heights, the 
Hottentots observed three of these animals browsing 
on the Babylonian willows which thickly fringed its 
banks, and, taking my gun, I succeeded in shooting 
a female, which, however, immediately took to the 
water, and reached the opposite bank, although se- 
verely wounded. 'The koedoes live singly, or in pairs, 
in the woody districts of the eastern part of the 
Cape Colony, in Caffraria, and about the sources of 
