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the precipice, and lighting on its hams without danger of pur- 
fuit, continues till evening in the vale below ; 
A fpecies of deer of a fmaller fize than the common park deer 
of England. Its head, neck, and back, are of a browniili red ; 
and a pale ftreak of the fame colour, running on a white ground, 
i-s continued on each lide from the haunch to the hoof : the reft 
of the body is of a clear and delicate white. Such, if the Fe- 
zanners are to be credited, is the cleanlinefs of its temper, or 
fuch, more probably, is its difllke to the chill of a watery foil, 
that during the autumnal rains, which fall in the Defarts of 
Zahara, where it chiefly inhabits, no traces of its laying down 
have ever yet been feen. In the ftillnefs of the night it often 
ventures to the corn fields of Fezzan, v/here, in traps prepared 
for the purpofe, it is fometimes taken. 
The food of the lower claffes of the people confifts of the 
flour of Indian corn, feafoned with oil ; of dates, apricots, and 
pomegranates, and of calabaflies, cucumbers, and garden roots* 
Perfons of a fuperior rank are alfo fupplied with wheat bread, 
which is baked in their own houfes ; with mutton, goats ilefli, 
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