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Updated: June 7, 2025
There is a peculiar glare of bright sunlight from a cloudless sky over the whole scene; and one clump of trees and bushes, with open spaces between, looks so exactly like another, that if you leave the wells, and walk a quarter of a mile in any direction, it is difficult to return. Oswell and Murray went out on one occasion to get an eland, and were accompanied by one of the Bakalahari.
He reported the result of his scouting in a low voice, to which the white man paid no attention whatever. "Twiga bwana," he said, and then, as his eye caught the flash of many sing-sing horns, "kuru, mingi." Thus he named over the different animals the topi, the red hartebeeste, the eland, zebra, some warthogs, and many others.
Cheetah, eland, hartebeest, and serval-cat we had roped and tied and photographed. But the really big game had so far escaped us. For this reason we had decided to take the road over the Mau, where the smoke haze hung heavy, and so on into the Sotik country, where both lion and rhino were said to abound.
The plot was now ripe for execution. For a time, however, the inaccessible nature of the castle rock, and the vigilance with which the gates were guarded, appeared to present an insuperable obstacle to the accomplishment of their designs. However, Sir William Eland, Constable of the Castle, was won over, and he agreed to admit the conspirators.
There is a large body of gnoos and quaggas under that small hill to the westward; but there are better animals for the table when we get a little further to the northward." "Which are those?" "The eland, the largest of the antelope species, and sometimes weighing more than a thousand pounds; moreover, they are very fat, and very easy to run down. They are excellent eating.
It has been compared to tender beef with a game flavour; and the muscles of the thighs when cured and dried produce a bonne bouche, known under the odd appellation of "thigh-tongues." Of course the eland affording such excellent meat, and in so large a quantity, is zealously hunted for his spoils.
In a few minutes more the quagga was close upon his heels; and then the huge antelope, seeing that farther running could not serve him, halted in despair, and faced round towards his pursuer. Now Hendrik had his loaded rifle in his hand, and you expect to hear that he instantly raised it to his shoulder, took aim, fired, and brought down the eland.
The thick river jungle gave cover to such animals as the bushbuck, leopard, the beautiful colobus, some of the tiny antelope, waterbuck, buffalo and rhinoceros. Among the thorn and acacia trees of the hillsides one was certain of impalla, eland, diks-diks, and giraffes.
Into this the point of the arrow is dipped; and the head is then protected until required by a narrow strip of buckskin wound around and around it. I have never witnessed the effects of this poison; but V. told me he had seen an eland die in twenty-two minutes from so slight a wound in the shoulder that it ran barely a hundred yards before stopping.
Departure from Linyanti for Sesheke Level Country Ant-hills Wild Date-trees Appearance of our Attendants on the March The Chief's Guard They attempt to ride on Ox-back Vast Herds of the new Antelopes, Leches, and Nakongs The native way of hunting them Reception at the Villages Presents of Beer and Milk Eating with the Hand The Chief provides the Oxen for Slaughter Social Mode of Eating The Sugar-cane Sekeletu's novel Test of Character Cleanliness of Makololo Huts Their Construction and Appearance The Beds Cross the Leeambye Aspect of this part of the Country The small Antelope Tianyane unknown in the South Hunting on foot An Eland.
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