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DESCRIPTION OF THE 
9 July, 
get possession of them. Muchunka had assured me that the Briquas 
(Bachapins) would not ill-treat me ; and though this account of his 
countrymen should be correct, I conceived, on mature reflection, that 
they ought not to be trusted with any knowledge of my affairs or 
plans, which it was possible to conceal from them, lest that inform- 
ation should precede me in the countries beyond them, and prepare 
those nations for impeding my progress, or suggest the idea that my 
waggons would be a valuable booty. 
Five of my people were out hunting all day, but no game of 
any kind was seen, excepting an antelope which good-fortune threw 
in Juli's way, and which luckily he shot. It was an entirely new 
species, and the sequel proved it to be extremely scarce, as I never 
met with it again during the whole of my travels. Juli returned im- 
mediately for help to bring it home, and two of the Bachapins 
voluntarily accompanied him, and lent their assistance. The meat 
proved to be tender, and of a delicate taste. The name which they 
gave it, was, Khaama ; but as this is the name which the Bichuanas, 
in common with the Hottentots, apply to that animal which the 
Dutch colonists term Harteheest *, it would rather seem that the new 
species is not sufficiently frequent in their country to have obtained, 
generally, a distinct name. But this is mere surmise ; for the true 
Kaama differs from it so much in the form of its horns, that the two 
sorts never could be really confounded together, even by the most 
unobservant savage, The species to which it has the nearest affinity, 
fs that which, in the Cape Colony, is more properly called Blesbok ; 
but it is a larger animal than either that or the hartebeest. Its horns, 
of which a representation, both in front and in profile, is here given, 
have suggested the name of Antilope lunata f , by presenting, when 
viewed in front, the form of a crescent. They were ten inches long, 
* The Antilope Bubalis, of Linnasus. 
-j- Antilope lunata, B. Nigrescente-fusca. Femora et tibiffi fulva, ilia antice nigres- 
centia. Facies et frons, nigrescentes, lateribus purpureo-fuscis. Cornua subreclinata, 
extrorsum arcuata, apicibus introrsum versus, teretia, dimidio inferiore et ultra annulato. 
Cauda brevis, pilis longis nigris jubata. 
