45^ NATURAL HISTORY OF AFRICA. 
Cape of Good Hope ; and micaceous iron ore is 
met with in the same country, and used by the 
nativ^es, along with grease, for ornamenting their 
hair and bodies. Native meteoric iron has been 
discovered in several places in Africa. Golberry, 
in his journey through Western Africa, in the 
years 1805-7? found a mass of native iron in the 
Great Desert of Zahara. Fragments of it were 
brought to Europe by Colonel O'Hara, and were 
analyzed by Mr Howard, who found it composed 
of 90 parts of iron and 4 of nickel. Barrow men- 
tions a mass of iron he met with on the banks of 
the Great Fish River, in Caffraria, which appears 
to be meteoric* 
^8. Lead. — We have very few notices of the 
occurrence of this metal in Africa. Lead mines 
are said to exist in Tunis and Abyssinia j veins 
of galena^ or leadglance, intersect the strata of 
sandstone in the chain of Zwarteberg, in the 
country behind the Cape of Good Hope; and 
the same ore is met with in Madagascar. 
29. Antimony, — This metal is said to occur in 
large quantity in the Western Atlas. 
80. Tin is said to occur in Madagascar. 
Zoology. 
The ZooLoc^Y of this continent is less known 
* Jameson's Mineralogy, Vol. iii. p. 202, 203. 
