duiker-a

Updated: May 17, 2025

A duiker-a small grass antelope-broke from a little patch of the taller grass, rushed, head down headlong after their fashion, suddenly changed his mind, and dashed back again. I stepped forward to see why he had changed his mind-and ran into two lions! They were about thirty yards away, and sat there on their haunches, side by side, staring at me with expressionless yellow eyes. I stared back.

Stewart Edward White - The Land of Footprints