Volume 1

Cassell's popular natural history.

Date:
[1865-1866]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Cassell's popular natural history. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    755/824 (page 315)
    XIIK KEUCOltXX. is sold to tlio Arabs and neighbouring Fellahs. Of the skin a land of parchment is made, and used to cover the small drums with which the Syrians accompany the voice, or some musical instruments. In full flight, the ariel gazelle lays the horns, back almost on the shoulders, and seems to slum over the level plain, almost without touching it. Wild and timid as it is, yet, when taken young, it is readily tamed, and becomes familiar, and quite at ease. Tame gazelles are frequently seen at large in