TRAVELS IN 
The fwamp concealed alfo a fpecies of antelope, or goat, 
called the riet-bok^ or red goat, which does not appear yet to 
have been defcribed by naturalifts. In color and fize the male 
approaches nearly to the leucophaa or blue antelope. Its horns 
are from nine inches to a foot in length, diverge a little towards 
the points which are bent forwards, and are annulated about 
one-fourth of the length from the bafe. A creft of ihort hair 
runs from the throat to the cheft, which circumftance may pro- 
bably affign it a place in the goat genus. The diftin£tion feems 
to be arbitrary and not drawn by nature. This is a very rare 
animal, and fcarcely known in moft parts of the colony. An- 
other fpecies of antelope was here very plentiful, known by the 
Hottentot name of orah'ie^ which, except in color and fize, 
being of a darker brown and a little larger, bore a confiderable 
refemblance to the fteenbok : it was marked down the face with 
two yellow lines. Here alfo we met with that beautiful little 
animal the royal afitelope of Pennant, and the pygmcea of the 
SyJIema Nature. Except the pigmy mufk-deer, the royal ante- 
lope is the fmalleft of the hoofed quadrupeds : the height is 
from nine to twelve inches : the fides of a light brown pafling 
into an afh-colored blue on the back : the horns are about an 
inch and half long, ere(St and parallel, black, polifhed, and fhin- 
ing like marble : its habits are mild and innocent. The bofch- 
hok or wood-deer, the antelope Jylvatica, with its white-fpotted 
haunches, was common amongft the brufhwood ; and the 
griefbok, the fteenbok, and the duiker, were very plentiful 
upon the plains. 
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