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Updated: May 27, 2025
Anything that winged westward would naturally begin with a w." "Need it wing westward?" "The bird must go somewhere. You wouldn't have it hang around and look foolish. Then I've brought in something about the heedless hartebeest galloping over the deserted veldt." "Of course you know it's practically extinct in those regions?" "I can't help that, it gallops so nicely.
Another circumstance that astonished him was, that the dogs, after running up and around the hartebeest, had actually drawn off to their present position! What could it mean? Were they afraid of its ugly horns? Were they resting themselves before they should make their bloody onslaught! The hunter kept his gaze intently fixed upon the interesting group.
But it was during the days I could spare for an expedition into the plains that I proved the great qualities of my dog. There we had nobler game to follow wildebeest and hartebeest, impala, and now and then a koodoo. At first I was a complete duffer, and shamed myself in Colin's eyes.
Abundance of wood, water, and rich pasturage. He saw a great deal of large game, and the recent traces of elephants. Shot a gnu and hartebeest. "November 1st. The weather warm and serene, like the finest summer weather in England. Two snakes and a large scorpion killed. Turtle-doves, touracoos, thrushes, finches, and other birds of beautiful plumage become numerous. "6th. Violent storm of thunder.
When the hartebeest stood to bay, and the hounds came up, Von Bloom very naturally expected to see the latter run in upon their game, and at once pull it to the ground. This he knew was their usual habit. What was his astonishment at seeing the whole pack standing off to one side, as if they intended to leave the antelope alone!
They had not gone far, however, when Von Bloom perceived that one hound was forging ahead of the rest, and running much faster than any of them. He might have been a swifter dog than the others, but the hunter did not think it was that. He appeared rather to be running harder than they, as if sent forward to push the hartebeest, while the rest saved their wind.
Open grassy pastures were interspersed everywhere with clumps and groves of mimosa-trees, while the river, a gurgling mountain-brook, meandered musically through the meadows. From grove and thicket sprang the hartebeest and duiker.
I'm afraid I shall have to drop the aasvogel, and it did give such lovely local colour to the thing." "Still you've got the heedless hartebeest." "And quite a decorative bit of moral admonition when you've worried the meaning out 'Cease, War, thy bubbling madness that the wine shares, And bid thy legions turn their swords to mine shares.
From the windows of the car as he journeys from Mombasa to Nairobi, three hundred and twenty-seven miles, he may definitely count upon seeing at least seven of these species: Wildebeest, hartebeest, Grant's gazelle, Thompson's gazelle, zebra, impalla, and giraffe, with the likelihood of seeing in addition some wart-hogs and a distant rhinoceros, and the remote possibility of seeing cheetah, lion, and hyena.
With the eager haste of tyros, however, they ran stumbling after it until they came to an open stretch of ground which led them to the edge of a small plain. Here they simultaneously discovered that no duiker was to be seen, though they observed a troop of quaggas far out of range, and a hartebeest in the distance.
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