Animal products; . eantelope (jEgocerus niger), roan antelope (sEgocerus equina),waterbok (sEgocerus ellipsypry?nnus). Hartebeeste (Acronotus[Alcelaphus] caama), bastard hartebeeste or sayssabe {Acronotuslunata, or Damalis lunafus), pallah or red bushbok (Antilope[sEgoceros] melampus), bontebok (Gazella [Damalis] pygarga),blesbok (Gazella [Damans] albifrons), bushbok (Tragelaphus syl-vaticus), rheebok (Redunca capreolus), rietbok (Redunca eleotragus,Eleotragus arundinaceus, Gray), small rietbok (Redunca isabellina),rooi rheebok (Redimca Lalandii), oribe (Antilope scoparia, Scopo-phorus ourebi)
Animal products; . eantelope (jEgocerus niger), roan antelope (sEgocerus equina),waterbok (sEgocerus ellipsypry?nnus). Hartebeeste (Acronotus[Alcelaphus] caama), bastard hartebeeste or sayssabe {Acronotuslunata, or Damalis lunafus), pallah or red bushbok (Antilope[sEgoceros] melampus), bontebok (Gazella [Damalis] pygarga),blesbok (Gazella [Damans] albifrons), bushbok (Tragelaphus syl-vaticus), rheebok (Redunca capreolus), rietbok (Redunca eleotragus,Eleotragus arundinaceus, Gray), small rietbok (Redunca isabellina),rooi rheebok (Redimca Lalandii), oribe (Antilope scoparia, Scopo-phorus ourebi), duiker bok (Cephalophus mergens), steinbok (Tra-gulus rupestris), klipspringer (Oreotragus saltatrix, Harris), grysbok(Calotragus melanotis, Gray), bluebok or kleinbok (Cephalophus VARIETIES OF ANTELOPE. 205 caeruka), and gemsbok {Oryx Gazelld). The flesh of the gems-bok ranks next to the eland, and at certain seasons of the yearthey carry a great quantity of fat. Some smaller doubtful specieshave been WATERBOK {Aniilope \Kobns\ ellipsyprymna, Ogilby). CHAPTER VI. FURS AND THE FUR TRADE. In this chapter the early use of furs is glanced at, the %reat Arctichunting fields of Europe, Asia, and America, are described—thetrade and statistics of furs given in detail—the dressing, dyeing,and preparing of skins for furs. The trade carried on by theHudsons Bay Company and dealers in the United States, Russia,and Germany, receives notice, with the value of imported furs,preparatory to detailed accounts of the principal fur bearinganimals^ to be described in subseque?it pages. Although nearly all the orders of the Mammalia supply-peltries, it is those of the Carnivora and Rodentia which arechiefly valuable to commerce. Peltries is the name given to skinsprepared with the hair on, intended for furs. To trace the origin of the trade in skins and furs would implya study on the origin of the human race. Necessity, the motherof invention, soon suggested to the inhabitants of
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