§30 ANTELOPE TRTB1S , 
a middle nature, between these two kinds ; or, t© 
speak with greater truth and precision* they form 
a distinct kind by themselves. 
The distinguishing marks of this tribe of ani- 
mals, by which they differ both from the goat 
and the deer, are these , their horns are made dif- 
ferently, being annulaled or ringed round, at the 
same time that there are longitudioated depressions 
running from the bottom to the point. They have 
bunches of hair upon their fore legs ; they have 
a streak of black, red, or brown, running along 
the lower part of their sides, and three streaks of 
whitish hair in the internal side of the ear. These 
are characters that none of them are without ; be- 
sides these, there are others, which, in general, they 
are found to have, and which are more obvious to 
the beholder. Of all animals in the world, the 
gazelle has the most beautiful eye, extremely bril- 
liant, and yet sc meek, that all the eastern poets 
compare the eyes of their mistresses to those of this 
animal. A gazelle-eyed beauty is considered as 
the highest compliment that a lover can pay ; and, 
indeed, the Greeks themselves thought it no inele- 
gant piece of flattery to resemble the eyes of a 
beautiful woman to those of a cow. The gazelle, 
for the most part, is more delicately and finely limb- 
ed than even the roe buck ; its hair is as short, but 
finer, and more glossy. Its hinder legs are longer 
than those before, as in the hare, which gives it 
greater security in ascending or descending steep 
places. Their swiftness is equal, if not superior, 
to that of the roe ; but as the latter bounds for- 
ward, so these run along in an even uninterrupted 
course. Most of them are brown upon the back 
white under the belly, with a black stripe sepa- 
rating those colours between. Their tail is of va-» 
rious lengths, but in all covered with pretty long 
hair ; and their ears are beautiful, well-placed* 
