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ia fuch quantities, that the ikin was not worth 
keeping. 
Another peculiarity of this fmgular hair is 
its being extremely fragile, fo that if you take 
a tuft of it between your fingers, and twifl it 
with the other hand, it will break like the 
barbs of a feather. This property, however, 
belongs not exclufively to the hair of the kainfi\ 
for 1 have obferved it in the hair of other qua- 
drupeds, which in the fame manner live among 
the rocks. 
The antelope of which I am fpeaking differs 
from the other fpecies alfo in the iliape of the 
foot, Vv'hich, inftead of being pointed like theirs, 
is rounded at the end ; and as it Is always ac- 
cuftomed, both in leaping and walking, to 
tread with the point of the hoof, without reft* 
ingat all on the heel, it leaves a print diftinguiCi- 
able from that of any other antelope in Africa. . 
Its flefh is exquifitely flavoured, and much 
fought after, particularly by the hunters. Pan- 
thers and leopards too are equally fond of it ; 
and I have been told by the Hottentots, that 
thefe animals unite feveral together to hunt 
the kainfi, and, when it takes refuge on the 
point of fome fteep rock, that one of them will go 
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