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across the forehead, leaving only a narrow channel between 
them that wears out with age, as in the instance of the buf- 
falo ; the horns project forwards twelve inches, then turn in a 
short curve backwards ten inches ; from the root to the point 
is only nine inches ; down the middle of the face grows a ridge 
of black hair four inches in length ; and from the under lip to 
the throat another ridge somewhat longer : the orbit of the eye 
is round, and surrounded by long white hairs that, like so many 
radii, diverge and form a kind of star : this radiated eye gives 
to the animal a fierce and a very uncommon look. The same 
sort of white vibrissae are thinly dispersed over the lips : the 
neck is little more than a foot long : on the upper part is a 
mane extending beyond the shoulders, erect, and five inches 
in length ; the hair like bristles, black in the middle and white 
on each side ; this mane appears as if it had been cut and 
trimmed with nice attention ; a ridge of black hair, from six 
inches to a foot in length, extends from the fore part of the 
chest under the fore legs to the beginning of the abdomen : 
the body is about three feet two inches long ; the joints of 
the hip-bones project high, and form on the haimches a pair 
of hemispheres : the tail is two feet long, flat near the root, 
-where the hair grows only out of the sides ; this is white, 
bristly, and bushy : the whole length, from the point of the 
nose to the end of the tail, seven feet ten inches, and the 
height three feet six inches ; the color is that of a mouse, with 
a few ferruginous straggling hairs on the sides : like the mare, 
it has only two teats ; and all its habits and its motions are 
e{|uine : though a small animal, it appears of a very consider- 
able size when prancing over the plains. The gnoo might be 
considered as an emblem of unbounded freedom with the 
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