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rous, that the wax is often thrown away as an article of no value 
m the market. 
Their gt^me confifts of the Huaddee, and other lj3ecies of an- 
telopes, of the partridge, the wild duck, and tlie oftrich,. the 
flefli of which they prize above every other. 
Their other wild animals are the lion, the leopard, the civet 
cat, the fmall wolf, the fox, the wild dog, that hunts the ante- 
lope ; the elephant, which is not common, and of which they 
make no ufe ; the crocodile, the hippopotamus, which is often 
killed on the banks of the river that runs from the Neel Shem, 
(the Nile of Egypt) to the Defart of Bllma ; and a large and 
fmgular animal, which is diftlnguiflied by the name of Zarapah, 
and which is defcrlbed as refembling the camel in its head and 
body, as having a long and flender neck like the oftrich, as be- 
ing much taller at the fhoulders than the haunches, and as de- 
fended by fo tough a Ikin, as to furnifh the natives v/ith fhields 
that no arrow or javelin can pierce. 
Bornou, 
* Giraffa h the name by which the camelopardalls is called in the old zoological 
looks. — The defcription here inferted, feems to have arifen from a blended recolle^ion of 
that animalj and of the hippopotamus, whofe hide is extremely tough. 
