The antelope is a kind of deer, but smaller in size.

Those antelopes were so light of foot, that it had been truly impossible to distinguish them; but it was not so with another troop of animals which was signaled the same day.

The antelope which Dick was thus wildly pursuing was of the same species as the one he had shot some time beforenamely, the prong-horned antelope.

Antelopes, deer, small quadrupeds, and monkeys are its prey.

So they found a place where antelope were plenty, and set up on the prairie long lines of rock piles, or of bushes, so as to form a chute like a >.