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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 fliort hair 
runs from the throat to the cheft, which circumftance may pro- 
bably affign it a place in the goat genus. The diftindlion 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 arable^ 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 antelope of Pennant, and the pygmaa of the 
Syjlema Natura. Except the pigmy mufk-deer, the royal ante- 
lope is the fmallefl of the hoofed quadrupeds : the height is 
from nine to twelve inches : the fides of a light brown paffing 
into an afli-colored blue on the back : the horns are about an 
inch and half long, ered and parallel, black, poliflied, and fhin- 
ing like marble : its habits are mild and innocent. The bofch- 
bok or wood-deer, the antelope fylvatica, with its white-fpotted 
haunches, was common amongft the brufhwood j and the 
griefbok, the fteenbok, and the duiker, were very plentiful 
upon the plains. 
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