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prove the exiftence of fuch an animal, on which he ufed to lay 
great ftrefs. The following particulars, related to me by the 
perfons themfelves, may perhaps be conlidered as not entirely 
irrelevant to the fubjedt. They fhew at leaft how imperfe6t is 
the knowledge of the natural hiftory of parts bordering imme- 
diately on the colony of the Cape, and that much yet remains 
to be difcovered to an attentive traveller. 
Adrian Van Yarfveld, of Camdeboo in Graaflf Reynet, fhot 
an animal a few years ago, at the point of the Bambos-berg, 
that was entirely unknown to any of the colonifts. The de- 
fcription he gave me of it in writing, taken, as he faid, from a 
memorandum made at the time, was as follows : 
" The figure came neareft to that of the quacha, but of a 
" much larger fize, being five feet high and eight feet long ; 
" the ground color yellowifh, with black ftripes : of thefe were 
*' four curved ones on each fide of the head, eleven of the 
" fame kind between the neck and fhoulder ; and three broad 
" waved lines running longitudinally from the fhoulder to the 
*' thigh ; mane fhort and ere£l: ; ears fix inches long, and 
" ftriped acrofs ; tail like the quacha : on the centre of the 
" forehead was an excrefcence of a hard boney fubftance, co- 
vered with hair, and refembling the rudiments of a horn ; 
" the length of this with the hair was ten inches." 
About the fame time, Tjardt Van dcr Walt^ of Olifant's River 
in Zwellendam, in company with his brother, faw, near the 
fame place, an animal exadly of the fhape of a horfe, and 
fomewhat 
