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nor indeed have I ever heard of any makhig 
their appearance there : vi^hence I conclude, 
that in this fouthern part of Africa the dlftrid: 
inhabited by thefe animals is a fpace of about 
four degrees, that is to fay, the interval be- 
tween the two rivers, Fifh and Orange river. 
Not that they have been exclufively confined 
to this fpot by nature, and are unable to exift 
in any other. On the contrary, they have 
been feen at Galam on the Senegal, three 
hundred leagues from its mouth ; at leaft I 
have heard fo from people of credit We read 
in ancient travellers^ that they were to be 
found in India : and if the moderns do not 
fpeak of them there, it is becaufe the breed is 
deftroyed, or become lefs numerous, and retired 
into the deferts. Bruce alfo mentions a 
giraffe which he fav/ in Abyffinia. I fuf- 
ped:, however, that it was fome other qua- 
draped, and not a giraffe, fmce he tells us 
that thefe animals have the horns of an an- 
telope, 
Refuming our journey the next day, we 
perceived about noon a herd of horned cattle, 
which announced the horde we were feeking. 
Put at fight of us their keepers were alarmed, 
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