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marked from the shoulders to the flanks with longitudinal 
stripes or bands. The greatest number of such drawings are 
said to be met with in the Bambos-berg ; and, as the people 
who make them live on the north side of this great chain 
of mountains, the original maj one day, perhaps, be also 
found there. 
This part of Africa is as jet untrodden ground, few if any 
of the boors having proceeded beyond the mountains. It 
may be said, perhaps, that if such an animal existed, and was 
known to the natives inhabiting a part of the country not very 
distant from the borders of the colony, the fact would cer- 
tainly before this time have been ascertained. This, how- 
ever, does not follow. Very few of the colonists have crossed 
the Orange river, or have been higher along its banks than 
the part where we were under the necessity of turning off to 
the southward ; and the sort of communication that the pea- 
santry have with the Bosjesmans is not of that nature to sup- 
ply much information respecting the country they inhabit. 
The mouth of the Orange river is much nearer to the Cape 
than the plains behind the Kaffer mountains ; yet it was but 
the other day that the existence of the camelopardalis was 
ascertained near the former place, though no savage nation, 
but a civilized tribe of Hottentots only, intervened. Certain 
animals, as well as plants, confine themselves to certain dis- 
tricts of the same country. The animal above mentioned 
was never known to have passed the Orange river. It would 
appear also that in Northern Africa it has its limited range ; 
for, since the time of Julius Csesar, when one was publicly 
exhibited in Rome, it had been lost to Europe till within the 
