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neck ; a dark-brown oval fpot extends over the back, ter- 

 minating juft above the tail, which is flender, fomewhat 

 like that of an Afs, and is covered with ftrong black, 

 hairs about fix inches long: There is a pore about an 

 inch below the eye, from which a matter is diitilled, 

 fomewhat like ear-wax, which the Hottentots preferve as 

 a rare and excellent medicine. 



This animal is fuppofed to be the Bubalus of the an- 

 cients ; it is the Cervine Antelope of Mr Pennant, and the 

 Bubale of M. BufFon. 



The hair of the Hart-beeft is very fine ; and its long 

 cars are covered with white hair on the infide : It has 

 only eight teeth in the lower jaw, none in the upper; 

 the legs are rather flender, with fmall fetlocks and hoofs. 



The large head and high forehead, together with the 

 affinine ears and tail, of the Hart-beeft, render it one of 

 the lead handfome of the whole tribe of Antelopes. Its 

 pace, when at full fpeed, appears like a heavy gallop; 

 notwithstanding which, it runs as faft as any of the large 

 Antelopes. When it has once got a- head of its purfuers, 

 it is very apt to turn round, and (tare them full in the 

 face. — Its flefh is fine, rather dry, but of an agreeably 

 high flavour. 



The KOEDOE, or Striped ANTELOPE, 



is a beautiful, tall Gazelle, inhabiting the Cape of Good 

 Hope ; has long flender Ihanks \ is larger, though not fo 

 clumfy, as the Elk- Antelope : Its horns are fmooth, twirl- 

 ed fpirally, with a prominent edge or rib following the 

 wreaths; they are three feet nine inches long, of a pale- 

 brown colour, clofe at the bafe, and at the points round 

 and fharp. 



