, the gazelle. 45 
1 compare it with that of this elegant 
The 
dotn' • of Africa seems to he the original 
jud ^ graceful antelope, though, to 
Qf ^ the traditional legends and poetry 
central India, it must also 
iac of the regions immediately ad- 
ijj them. It is certain, however, that 
w}ji desolate provinces of North Africa 
ajjjj Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli, 
from the Date country, extending 
confi^ borders of the Great Sahara to the 
the hel more inland, in 
ig ^bat vast continent, the gazelle 
of in countless herds. Their mode 
trijjeg^'^'^^ bke that of different gregarious 
P*^csen^^ ''^dd goats : they form a circle, and 
beasts borns in every direction to the 
attach Pi’oy who so often and so successfully 
Til ' 
® chase of these animals is a favourite 
