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flavour. One fpecies of Antelope, called here the Griefbok or 
grizzled deer, frequents the thickets of the hills, and does no 
fmall injury at nights to the infant fhoots of the vine ; and an™ 
other fpecies of the name of Duiker or Diver, from the manner 
of its plunging and concealing itfelf among the bufhes, is not 
uncommonly met with on the fandy ifthmus. Neither of thefe 
animals appear as yet to have been defcribed in any fyftematic 
work, though very common in every part of the colony, and 
often mentioned by travellers. The color of the Diiiker is 
wholly of a dufky brown ; is about three feet in length and two 
and a half in height : the male has horns ftreight, black, nearly 
parallel, but diverging a little towards the points, four inches 
long, and annulated clofe to the bafe. The female has no 
horns ; length of the ears feven inches ; of the tail, five inches. 
The finus lachrymaUs^ or fubocular indent, which moft of the 
antelopes have, is in this fpecies fo confpicuous that the Dutch 
fay it carries the gall-bladder under the eye. The Greifbok is 
of a grizzled or greyifh color, the ground bright brown inter- 
fperfed with filver hairs ; length two feet nine inches ; height 
one foot nine inches ; ears five inches, black and naked ; tail 
two inches ; the Jinus lachrymal'is very diftin£l. The male has 
horns four inches long, ftreight, fmooth, tapering to a point, 
black : the female has no horns. The Steenbok, once the moft 
numerous of the antelope tribe that inhabited the penlnfula, is 
now nearly extirpated from this part of Africa, though equally 
abundant with the other two beyond the ifthmus. This ani- 
mal is the Antelope Grimmea of Pallas, and the Guinea antelope 
of Pennant. The horfes of the Cape are not indigenous, but 
were firft introduced from Java, and fince that, at various 
times, 
