Animal products; . HUNTING-PIECE, FROM A CHINESE DRAWING, IN WHICH DEER,LEOPARD, AND MUSK-DEER CAN BE SEEN. ment with a sensible impregnation for many years without itsweight being perceptibly diminished, and one part can communi-cate its odour to 3,000 parts of an inodorous powder. Ourimports of musk range from 10,000 to 17,000 ounces yearly. Theexports from British India in 1875 were 7,403 ounces. The musk bags or sacs, after the grain musk has been extracted,are used by perfumers to prepare essence of musk.* There are two commercial kinds of this musk, named after thecountries where they ar
Animal products; . HUNTING-PIECE, FROM A CHINESE DRAWING, IN WHICH DEER,LEOPARD, AND MUSK-DEER CAN BE SEEN. ment with a sensible impregnation for many years without itsweight being perceptibly diminished, and one part can communi-cate its odour to 3,000 parts of an inodorous powder. Ourimports of musk range from 10,000 to 17,000 ounces yearly. Theexports from British India in 1875 were 7,403 ounces. The musk bags or sacs, after the grain musk has been extracted,are used by perfumers to prepare essence of musk.* There are two commercial kinds of this musk, named after thecountries where they are obtained, the Tonquin or Thibet musk, * For these illustrations we are indebted to Rimmels History of Perfumes. THE ANTELOPE TRIBE. 199 imported from India, and the Kabardin or Siberian musk whichcomes through St. Petersburgh or by the way of China. Althoughthe musky odour penetrates the whole animal, its flesh is said tobe eaten by the natives. The skin is manufactured into furs MUSK POD, NATURAL SIZE. The Antelope Tribe.—These animals are confined to the oldworld, but in no other part are so many varieties of the familyseen as in South Africa, over large districts of which they less than twenty-seven species, from the stately blackbokdown to the diminutive blaabok or pigmy antelope, many ofwhich, however, are found in other parts of the continent, arereckoned south of 200 of S. latitude; of these the largest, theeland, is still met with in the western parts of Natal, and moreplentifully in the Zulu country, the Transvaal territory, the Kali-hari, the Betchouanaland and the Ngami regions. It was oncevery common in every part of the Cape colony, as the numerouslocalities called by its name testify. The Eland {Oreas Canna, Boselaphus oreas7 Gray).—Amongthe known species of antelopes, which are not less than 80 innumber, there are none more imposing from its size or moreinteresting in an economic point of view, than the Eland. SirCornwallis Harris
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