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the women and children ; but that he should not be the first 
to try it, as long as he could buy that article in the Cape 
for six schillings, or three English shillings, a pound. 
The thick shubbery, that covers the uncultivated parts of 
the valley, lodges and protects an abundance of game, parti- 
cularly of the Cape partridges, which, fearless of man, run 
about nearly as tame as poultry in a farm-yard ; and of kor- 
haens, the otis afra of Linnaeus, and white-eared bustard of 
Latham, which, unlike the partridge, not only fly to a dis- 
tance at the approach of the sportsman, but keep up, while 
on the wing, a violent screaming, as if to give notice to other 
birds of the impending danger. Here also are plenty of Cape 
snipes, Scolopax Capensis, and three species of wild ducks, 
the anas Capensis, or Cape widgeon, the Dominican duck, 
and the common teal. Among the quadrupeds that in- 
habit the valley are the duiker and the grieshok (the diver 
or plunger, and the grizzled deer). The color of the diiiker 
is wholly of a dusky brown ; he is about three feet in length 
and two and a half in height ; the male has horns streight, 
black,, nearly parallel, but diverging a little towards the 
points, four inches long, and annulated close to the base. 
The female has no horns ; length of the ears seven inches ;, of 
the tail, five inches. The sinus lachrymalis, or subocular indent, 
v/hich most of the antelopes have, is in this species so conspi- 
cuous that the Dutch say it carries the gall-bladder under 
the eye. The griesbok is of a grizzled or greyish color, the 
ground bright brown interspersed with silver hairs ; length 
t\^o feet nine inches; height one foot nine inches; ears five 
inches, black and naked ; tail two inches ; the sinus lachr^,- 
