. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Mammals; Natural history; Mammifères; Sciences naturelles. I ;ii ).— tniiii'i llie flesh ol Llaiul is cxcolU^nt ; and as it possesses tlie valuable qualitv of being tender after the animal is killed, it is liicjldv appreciated in tli'e Ulterior of South Africa, where usually all the fond is as touir], asVhn.'-leatlier, and nearlv asclry. In some maimer, the Klaiid contrives to live for tooetlier without diinuino;, and even when the lierhan-e is so (hy tliat it crumbles into powder in the
. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Mammals; Natural history; Mammifères; Sciences naturelles. I ;ii ).— tniiii'i llie flesh ol Llaiul is cxcolU^nt ; and as it possesses tlie valuable qualitv of being tender after the animal is killed, it is liicjldv appreciated in tli'e Ulterior of South Africa, where usually all the fond is as touir], asVhn.'-leatlier, and nearlv asclry. In some maimer, the Klaiid contrives to live for tooetlier without diinuino;, and even when the lierhan-e is so (hy tliat it crumbles into powder in the hand tli(! hiand preserves its yood condition, ami is, moreover, found to contain water in its stomach It opened. For its abstinence in liquids, the Eland compensates by its ap]n'tite for solid food, and is so lai-e a fc'der that tlu" expense of tlie ammal 1h. almost ioo oreat for any one who eiuleavoured to .lomesticate the animal 111 hiiojand with any ho])e of proiit. The clour of tiie is a pale greyish-hrown, and the iiorns are nearlv strai|iiraily twisted, and of considerable size. "' ^ ' A variety of this animal, termed tlie Striped Khind, is s(uiietimes, but rarelv seen Some tew years a-o, when C'.ilonel Faddy, i;.A. nas in Southern Africa, ho. shot'several ot tliese animals, and lnmi-ht their skins Iionie as of success Neither at the Tape imr in KnnJand was he believed when he descrii)ed the animals whicii he had been InitiuKite ..nou->h to kill, and it was not until he iiroduced the skins that his account was crecUted, llie skins M-ere presented to the instituMon attached to the Uoval Artillery luirracks at \\oolwieh, and may l)e seen in the museum. For the following account of the Pkisch-kojc, I am noain indebtetl to Captain I) ray sons Ms, t "The Black Bosch-bok is upwards of three feet in hei-ht, and live feet in len-nh very elegant, and stouter thau the generality of Antelopes. The horns arc a foot i
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