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but neither the one nor the other have supplied any informa- 
tion of the interior. Among the latter, Colonel Gordon was 
the only man who seemed desirous of e>;tending the know-' 
ledge of the southern part of this continent, and even his 
travels were very circumscribed. This gentleman had several 
occasions to see the drawings of the unicorn made by the 
savages ; a circumstance to prove the existence of such an 
animal, on which he used to lay great stress. The following 
particulars, related to me by the persons themselves, may not 
perhaps be considered as entirely irrelevant to the subject. 
1 give them as I had them; they carry with them no conviction, 
though they shew at least how imperfect is the knowledge 
of the natural history of parts bordering immediately on the 
colony of the Cape, and that much yet remains to be dis- 
covered by an attentive traveller. 
Adrian Van Yarsveld, of Camdeboo in GraafF Reynet, 
shot an animal a few years ago, at the point of the Bambos- 
berg, that was entirely unknown to any of the colonists. 
The description he gave to me of it in writing, taken, as he 
said, from a memorandum made at the time, was as follows : 
*' The figure came nearest to that of the quacha, but of a 
" much larger size, being five feet high and eight feet long ; 
" the ground color yellowish, with black stripes : of these 
" were four curved ones on each side of the head, eleven 
" of the same kind between the neck and shoulder; and 
" three broad waved lines running longitudinally from the 
*' shoulder to the thigh ; mane short and erect ; ears six 
inches long, and striped across ; tail like the quacha : on 
