Mr. WAFERS Voyages, &cJ 



His Mouth is like that of a Hare ; and the Hair-lip 

 above opens as well as the Main-lips, when he bites 

 the Grafs, which he does very near. His Head is 

 much like an Antelope but they had no Horns 

 when we were there; yet we found very large 

 Horns, >much twifted, in the Form of a Snail-fhell, 

 which we fuppos'd they had Ihed : They lay many 

 of them fcattering upon the fandy Bays. His Ears 

 refemble thofe of an Afs, his Neck fmall, and re- 

 fembling a Cammels. He carries his Head bend- 

 ing, and very ftately, like a Swan ; is full-chefted 

 like a Horfe, and has his Loyns much like a well- 

 fhap'd Grey-hound. His Buttocks refemble thofe 

 of a full-grown Deer, and he has much fuch a Tail. 

 He is Cloven-footed like a Sheep, but on the In- 

 fide of each Foot has a large Claw, bigger than 

 ones Fingqr, but fharp, and refembling thofe of an 

 Eagle. Thefe Claws ftand about 2 Inches above 

 the Divifion of the Hoof; and they ferve him in 

 climbing Rocks, holding fail by whatever they 

 bear againft. His Flefh eats as like Mutton as can 

 be : He bears Wool of 12 or 14 Inches long upon 

 the Belly ; but 'tis fhorter on the Back, fhaggy, 

 and but inclining to a Curl. 'Tis an innocent and 

 very ferviceable Beaft, fit for any Drudgery. Of 

 thefe we kill'd 43 ; out of the Maw of one of 

 which I took 13 Z^z^r-ftones, of which fome were 

 ragged and of feveral Forms ; fome long, refem- 

 bling Coral ; fome round, and fome oval, but all 

 green when taken out of the Maw : Yet by long 

 keeping they turn'd of an Afh-colour ; and I have 

 fome of them now by me. 



The Spaniards told us, that thefe Creatures are 

 extraordinarily ferviceable to them at the Mines of 

 Potoji, ( which lie a great way up in the Country) in 

 bringing the Silver from thence to the Cities that lie 

 toward the Sea between which Cities and the Mines 

 are fuch cragged Ways and dangerous Precipices* 



