. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. 526 THE SPRING-BOR. that yawn to receive them. One after another falls into the pit, and in this manner they perish by hundreds at a time. A very similar kind of trap, called the Hopo, is employed in Southern Africa, the walls of the inclosure being formed of trees and branches, and terminating in the pit of death. At the widest part the walls are about a mile asunder, and their length is about one mile. The pit at the extremity is guarded at its edges with tree-trunks, so as to prevent
. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. 526 THE SPRING-BOR. that yawn to receive them. One after another falls into the pit, and in this manner they perish by hundreds at a time. A very similar kind of trap, called the Hopo, is employed in Southern Africa, the walls of the inclosure being formed of trees and branches, and terminating in the pit of death. At the widest part the walls are about a mile asunder, and their length is about one mile. The pit at the extremity is guarded at its edges with tree-trunks, so as to prevent the sides from being broken down by the struggling animals in their endeavors to escape, and the plan is so suc- cessful, that sixty or seventy herd of large game are often captured in a single week. The tlesh of the Ariel Gazelle is highly valued, and is made an article of commerce as well as of immediate consumption by the captors. The hide is manufactured into a variety of useful articles. The Ariel is a small animal, measuring only about twenty-one inches in height. H 3^ SI'KINli-BOK.—AiilUope euc/tore. at the shoulder. The Jairou, or common Gazelle of Asia, which is so celebrated by the Persian and other Oriental poets, is ascertained to be a different species from the Dorcas, and may be distinguished from that animal by the general dimness of the marking, and the dark brown streak on the haunches. It is also known by the name of Anu, and Dsiieren. Several other species are now known to belong to the genus Gazella, among which we may mention the Mohr of Western Africa, the Axdea of Northern Africa, and the Korix, or Kevel, of Senegal. The latter animal possesses no tufts of hair upon the knees. There is one animal, the Chikara, or Ravine Deer of India, which is worthy of a passing notice, because it is by some authors supposed to belong to the Gazelles, and by others to form a separate genus, as is the case with the arrangement of the British Museum. This animal is also
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