322 ARRIVAL AT CRADOCK's BERG. 



can surpass the grace and agility with which these 

 elegant little animals bound along through the shady 

 avenues of the primeval forests of South Africa — now 

 skipping over some opposing shrub — now darting 

 beneath the rank vegetation, butting at each other 

 with their tiny horns, and playing a thousand inno- 

 cent and amusing gambols. The female has horns, 

 which differ only from those of the male in being 

 somewhat smaller. Naturalists were long ignorant 

 of this fact, it has consequently produced great con- 

 fusion in the accounts of some late writers on the 

 subject. 



Passing over nearly the same route by which I had 

 previously come, I reached my place of destination 

 late in the day, after a most tedious ride through a 

 wild and mountainous country ; and leaving Reins- 

 bergs on the following morning, came in the course 

 of the afternoon to the foot of the pass at Cradock's 

 Berg. 



