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I might keep it ; for, as he had now no ammunition for his defence, 
he did not think it worth so much trouble to redeem it. 
I desired Gert to hasten after him and let him know that, 
notwithstanding his message, I should wait at our present station 
time enough for him to send the mould, which in our circumstances 
was of so much importance, that I hoped, and should expect, that he 
would return it. After this, he finally departed ; and I had then 
little doubt that his desire to recover the gun, would induce him to 
act as I wished ; although it was evident I had nothing to expect 
from any feeling or principle of justice, which might teach him how 
much injury he did us, especially in our unprotected situation, by 
depriving us of the proper use of our largest gun ; the peculiar 
advantage of which, depended on being loaded with a ball which fitted 
the calibre exactly. 
As soon as this party was gone, we began therefore to consider 
ourselves as stationed at this place for some days. Several of my 
people went out hunting, and a Hartebeest was brought down by 
Juli. A new species of antelope which had been shot by Speelman 
late on the preceding evening, was fetched home ; but during the 
night the hyenas, or wolves as they are usually called by the Boors 
and Hottentots, had devoured all the flesh ; leaving us only the head 
and the hide. It might be classed as a species of Gnu, which, in 
general appearance and color, it closely resembled ; yet presented 
marks of difference which immediately showed it to be very dis- 
tinct. This animal and the hartebeest were nearly of the same 
size. It is entirely of a black-brown color ; having a bushy tail 
like that of the gnu, but quite black, while in the gnu it is white. 
It has a long black mane and beard, and two large spurious hoofs. 
Its horns, which are neither annulated nor twisted, are curved out- 
wards and downwards, and their points recurved upwards ; in the 
same position as in the Cape buffalo. Its horns, more remark- 
ably than in any other antelope, resemble those of oxen in general j 
and in this particular it differs essentially from the gnu, whose horns 
are turned forwards, but not outwards : neither is their enlargement 
