alakud

Updated: May 19, 2025

After an hour's march we reached the base of Koralay, upon whose lower slopes appeared a pair of the antelopes called Alakud : they are tame, easily shot, and eagerly eaten by the Bedouins. Another hour of slow travelling brought us to a broad Fiumara with high banks of stiff clay thickly wooded and showing a water-mark eighteen feet above the sand.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - First Footsteps in East Africa