vildebeest

Updated: May 9, 2025

We carried him in, groaning in our bitter grief, and despatched messengers to arouse all the Kaffirs on and about the place whom we could trust and to a party of Boers, six men in all, who chanced to have outspanned that night upon the borders of our farm to shoot vildebeest and blesbok.

Henry Rider Haggard - Swallow: a tale of the great trek