AFRICA. 
male are ftraight, fmooth, and diftant about 
a hand breadth from each other. Thje co- 
lour of this little animal is a moufe grey, 
which, on the ridge of the back, affumes a 
reddifli tint : but the belly and the infide of 
the thighs are white. It may be eafily feen, 
by the elegance of its form, that it is exceed- 
ingly nimble j it fometimes takes furprifing 
leaps, and fquats down like a hare. If any 
pne happens to get near it, as foon as it per- 
ceives liim, itinftantly betakes itfelf to flight 
with the velocity of lightning, and afterwards 
flops at fome diltance to examine its puriuer. 
This is the only opportunity one can have 
of firing at it ; and the hunter muft, without 
lofs of time, embrace it, for it laib only for 
a moment. Its cry, v^hich I oupht rather 
to call its warbling, is very long and llirill: 
it would be in vain for me to attempt to imi- 
tate it. It begins by a broken kind of 
whiftling, the tones of which are like thofe 
of a tabour hung round with little bells ; and 
its goat-like voice imitates them exceedingly 
well : one would hardly conceive that fo 
fmall an animal could make fo loud a noife; 
when I heard it for the firft time I imagined 
that I was dreaming. Its flefli, more deli- 
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