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of animals, and very swift, and when chased by 

 men or dogs, and found itself nearly overtaken, 

 would face its pursuers, and hide its hind parts in 

 some bush, and wait for them : imagining that if 

 it could conceal its tail, which was the object 

 they were in search of, it would escape unhurt. 

 The hunters shot at it with poisoned arrows, and 

 when they had slain the animal, took only the 

 tail and hide, making no use of the flesh. '* 



From the observations of Dr. Pallas and others 

 who have examined the interior parts of this ani- 

 mal, it appears to make a nearer approach to the 

 Buffalo than to any other species. 



CAPE ox. 



Bos Caffer. B, cornibus bad latissimis, turn divaricatis deorsum, 

 post sur sum apice introrsum curvatis, juba brevi. Lin. Syst. 

 Nat. Gmel. p. 207. Sparrm. Act. Stockk. 1779. 



Ox with the horns very broad at the base, then spreading down- 

 wards, next upwards, and at the tips curving inwards. 



Cape Ox. Pennant Quadr, i. p. 32. 



This species inhabits the interior parts of Af- 

 rica, north of the Cape of Good Hope, and is 

 greatly superior in size to the largest English Ox. 

 It is of a very strong and muscular form, with a 

 fierce and malevolent aspect. Its colour is a deep 

 cinereous brown : the hair on the body is rather 

 short, but that on the head and breast very long, 



