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[Harborth <dec...@is...>]

Ment caused both Basil and Francois to spring to their guns. Basil was
particularly anxious to bring down an antelope, for he had never killed
one. In fact, he had never seen one, as this animal is not met with near
the Mississippi. Strange to say, its favourite range is the arid deserts
that lie near the foots of the Rocky Mountains, where there is but
little grass, and less water. In some of these it is the only ruminating
animal, of any considerable size, to be met with. It is often found so
far from water, that some naturalists have asserted it can live without
this necessary element. They forget that what to them appears _far from
water_, is to the antelope but a run of a few minutes, or rather I
should say, a flight--for its bounding speed resembles more the flight
of a bird than the gallop of a four-footed creature. Antelopes differ
but little from deer. The latter want the gall-bladder, which all antel