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reports, in noticing that it makes only one great 
spring, and if that fails, follows up the attack no 
farther. There are, properly, no tigers in this 
part of Africa, but only panthers and leopards. 
Elephants are hunted by the Hottentots in the 
same manner as in Asia, by digging pits. The co- 
lonists, however, employ always fire-arms against 
this animal as well as the rhinoceros. The gnu, 
which appears to hold a middle place between the 
horse and the gazelle, was first noticed by Dr 
Sparmann. The same may be said of that beautiful 
antelope called the spring-bok. Of hippopotami 
he could only kill one, too young to afford a full 
idea of the species. He gives a very full descrip- 
tion of the termites, which appear to be as nume- 
rous here as they are over the western coast. 
The agreeable species of Cape wine, called Con- 
stantia, Dr Sparmann states to be the produce of 
two farms only ; and it appeared to him, that no 
cause, except some peculiarity of the soil, could be 
assigned for its superior excellence. The annual 
produce of these farms is sixty liggars of red, and 
ninety of white wine ; each liggar containing six 
hundred French pints. If the smallness of this 
quantity appears surprising to the reader, he may 
consider, that much of what is sold as Constantia, 
has nothing in common with that celebrated wine 
except the name. 
