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is rare, and very little known. During my re- 
fidence in Africa, I never faw but two of thefe 
antelopes, and another which was brought 
to the governor fome years before, when I 
lived at the Cape Town. Thefe, as well as 
mine, came from the valley of Soete-Melk^ the 
only canton which they inhabit. I was affured 
that I ihould fee fome of them in the country 
of the great Nimiquas ; but notwithfcanding 
this information, and all my refearches, I found 
myfelf difappointed : all the favages affirmed 
that they were not acquainted with them. I 
was alTured alfo that the female had horns as 
well as the male 5 but I can fay nothing on that 
head, fmcc the three which I faw w^ere all of 
the fame kind. 
The principal colour of this animal is a faint 
blue, inclining to grey ; but the belly and the 
interior part of the legs, throughout their whole 
length, are as v/hite as fnow ; the head, above 
all, is beautifully fpotted with white. 
I did not obferve, as Dr. Sparmann fays, 
that this antelope when alive refembles blue 
velvet, and that when dead the fkin changes 
its colour ; living or dead it appeared to me 
always alike. The tints, of that which I 
brought 
