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HARNESSED ANTELOPE. 
great delicacy. The fat of the heart is not only 
very copious, but so fine and tender as to be no 
bad substitute for butter ; and the Dutch farmers 
at the Cape use it without scruple in dressing their 
victuals. 
The hide on the neck of the elk antelope is very 
thick and tough ; and, next after that of the buf- 
falo, makes the best traces for waggons, halters 
for oxen, field-shoes, &c. Both the Hottentots 
and* the Boshiesmen use the horns of this animal, 
with wooden stalks fitted to them, for tobacco 
pipes ; from which they gulp up large draughts of 
smoke with the gTeatest avidity. A good draw 
ing* of one of these African tobacco-pipes is given 
in the first of the plates annexed to the first vo- 
lume of Sparrman’s Voyage. 
Harnessed antelope. 
This is one of the' smaller antelopes. Its legs, 
like those of the other antelopes, are long and 
slender ; its neck rather long and round ; its fore- 
head broad, and somewhat prominent ; its ears 
broad ; its horns situated almost on the hinder 
part of the head, straight, spiral, and flattened so 
as to have two angular sides ; its tail ten inches 
in length, and covered with long shaggy hair. 
The length of this animal, from the tip of the 
nose to the root of the tail, is about four feet and 
a half ; the height, from the heels of . the hinder 
feet to the back, two feet eight inches. The hair, 
over the whole body is short and smooth. The 
ears are bare within. The females have no horns. 
The ground colour of the body of this animal 
is a deep tawny. Beneath each eye, the face 
is marked with a white spot. On each side, the 
body displays six’ transverse, and two longitudinal 
white stripes or bands, so regularly disposed, as to 
