Note 69 — PART II Congo Folklore Tales or Stories told round the Congo Fire
Reading edition
It is said there are no true gazelles in Africa, whether that is so or not I have found it convenient to translate the Congo word nsexi uniformly as gazelle. The nsexi is about eighteen inches high, of slight body, thin legs, whitey-brown stomach, and brownish-grey back, small, sharp-pointed horns, small head, and large pathetic eyes. The nsexi is very agile, and I suppose that the slaves from the Congo finding no such animal in their new home in America, used the rabbit as a substitute--also there are no leopards there, so they transferred his gullibility to the fox, wolf and bear.