Inhabits North Africa, lives in small troops, easily tamed. Horns are directed backwards. This animal was thought to be used by ancient Egyptians as beasts of draught. Hand-colored engraving showing animal also known as Elk Antelope. Resemblance to oxen due to large size, more clumsy form, heavy gait, and large hairy dewlap.
Horns are formed into tobacco pipes, skins are much esteemed for making leather.
Horns have a spirally twisted appearance. With Caffrarian Family On A Journey. Colorful, hand-colored engraving. The Caffres who dwell upon the eastern coast of South Africa are a race of people very superior to what they have usually been considered, both to regard to their physical and moral character. Though strong and active, they eat very little animal food, but subsist chiefly on milk in a curdled state, and a few wild vegetable and roots.