Everts and the surrounding country are the home of the Park antelope and mountain sheep.
I fetched down anantelope a couple of hours ago, and as I was expectin' you, I cooked enough of it for both.
The lion eats the antelope, to be sure; but the real struggle lies between lion and lion for a fair share of meat, or between antelope and antelope for a fair share of pasturage.
They are not quite naked, except when going to war, on which occasion they are painted in stripes of red and yellow; but their usual covering is the skin of an antelope or goat, slung like a mantle across the shoulders.
The maharif is very similar to the roan antelope of South Africa, but is mouse colour, with black and white stripes upon the face.
He called also several of the natives of Malegga, who had arrived with beautifully prepared mantles of antelope and goatskins, to exchange for bracelets and glass beads.
Returning from my work, I found my camping place well arranged--beds prepared, and a good dinner ready of antelopesoup and cutlets.
The antelope first shot that was nearer to the boat, we dragged on board, with the assistance of ten or twelve men.
The ox was slaughtered, and the people preferring beef to antelope venison, I gave the flesh of the waterbuck to the Latooka porters belonging to Ibrahim's party.
This was the more annoying, as the maharif was an antelope that I believed to be a new species.
The antelope bleated but lay trembling, making no attempt to rise.
Pard was grunting now, but Douglas rowelled him and pushed on until he saw the antelope kneeling in the lee of an outcropping of rock.
After a moment of thought, he loosened his lariat, swung and roped the antelope around the horns, dragging it from its futile sanctuary.
Scarcely had he done so when a tiny herd of antelope trotted casually round the neighboring hillock.
The antelope possesses an unconquerable inquisitiveness, of which the hunters often take advantage, to compass the destruction of the animal.
We ascend a high butte, and from the top of it we can see three more antelope about a mile to the north of us; but this time they are in a hilly, broken country, and the wind is coming directly from them to us.
When I ascended the first of these I saw a handsome buck antelopeon the prairie half a mile away.
He went back to where I stood when I shot, stepped the distance to where the antelope stood, and found it to be 362 paces.
Aplocerus Montanus is much more closely allied to the antelope than to the domestic goat, and has few characteristics in common with the latter genus.
There was a terrific roar; the lead tore up a cloud of dust and went screaming away over the hills, while, to my utter astonishment, the antelope went sailing across the prairie with the speed of a greyhound.
Of all the numerous species of large game to be found in the far West, there is none whose pursuit furnishes grander sport to the expert rifleman than the antelope (Antilocapra americana).
And what I have said of the antelope is true of all the large game of the great West.
The speed of the antelope is probably not excelled by that of any other animal in this country, wild or domestic, except the greyhound, and, in fact, it is only the finest and fleetest of these that can pull down an antelope in a fair race.
This is not the best arm for antelope hunting; a Winchester express with the same sights would be much better; but this will answer very well.
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One of those Winchester express bullets is all an antelope needs, no matter what part of the body you hit him in.
We rode on a mile further and saw a young antelope lying down in some tall rye-grass.
The variety of deer and antelope are numerous, and always find ready purchasers; the genuine antelopewill bring two or three hundred dollars in the market.
A big koodoo bull stands as high as a bullock, and although they have the small shapely feet of anantelope the spoor is heavy enough to follow at a trot except on stony ground.
The indications of old tracks proved that at some time of the year, or under some different conditions, great herds of the more gregarious plains antelope and zebra visited the river, but at the time of our visit they were absent.
Antelope horns were everywhere hung on the walls; and teakwood easy-chairs, with rests on which comfortably to elevate your feet above your head, stood all about.
Deer and antelope were darting past them, and the horses and mules were rearing in terror.
Wouldn't the presence of buffalo and antelope indicate that there are not many Indians hereabouts?
On the twelfth day they came out on a comparatively level plateau, where antelope were grazing and prairie chickens whirring.
It might be some new kind of food very good for Mr. Big Buck's palate and stomach, and no provident antelope could afford to let such an opportunity pass.
Albert found antelope steak tender and juicy, and he ate with an increasing appetite.
Dick saw toward noon some antelope grazing on the horizon, but he was not a hunter now, and he did not trouble himself to seek a shot.
Late in the afternoon they saw a small herd of antelope and a lone buffalo grazing at a considerable distance, and Dick drew the second and comforting inference that game would prove to be abundant.
Instead, he offered some of the antelopesteaks to Conway, who churlishly accepted them, and that night he broiled others for Albert and himself, dividing the rest among the men.
They had seen antelope before at a great distance, but had not bothered about them.
They found plenty of game, as Dick had surmised, and killed anantelope and a fat young buffalo cow.
He had heard that the antelope was a slave to its own curiosity, and through that weakness he intended to secure his game.
The antelope constantly appears in the folk-tales as a sort of Deus ex machina, which leads the hero astray in the chase and brings him to the home of the ogress or the ensorcelled maiden.
Hence according to the old ritual, the skin of the antelope was the prescribed dress of the student of theology, and it is still the seat of the ascetic.
To storm this narrow antelope path is impossible; a single man can bar the ascent with his shield.
Nodding to the young girl, he covered her little head and veil with his huge right hand and pressed it tenderly to his broad breast; a radiant glance from the large dark antelope eyes thanked him.
Here and there in the concourse appeared a Moor, who had come from the border of the desert to the capital to sell ivory or ostrich feathers, lion and tiger skins, or antelope horns.
I thought I saw your little antelope at the window.
The hunter looked in vain over the lifeless landscape; now and then a few antelope might be seen, but not within reach of the rifle.
Fellas at Antelope told me they wanted a cook at this hotel.
He's telling folks in Antelopethat you refused to help him.
The following morning, much earlier than necessary, he mounted and rode to the bunk-house, where Corliss gave him the letter and told him to leave the horse at the stables in Antelope until he returned from Usher.
A guy told me in Antelope that they was a John Corliss--only he said Jack--what was needin' a cook.
He had wanted to let Corliss know that Loring was coming to Antelope and to let him know casually, and glean from the knowledge anything that might be of value.
Now I want you to call on every citizen in Antelope and tell every dog-goned one of 'em what Lone Johnny kind of hinted at regarding the Concho and Loring.
Do you think I'd be ridin' toAntelope if I done anything like shoot a man?
Midway between the town of Antelopeand the river Concho is the water-hole.
When he gets a look at how far it is to-morrow mornin' he'll sure back into the fence and come flyin' for Antelope with reins draggin'.
The only prevailable road-house betweenAntelope and the Concho, run by the retired cattle-king, Sundown Slim.
How long do you think I'll hold Sundown before Nell Loring drives into Antelope to tell me she can like as not prove he didn't kill Fade?
He read uninterruptedly for an hour, drifting on the broad current of the Mississippi to eventually disembark in Antelope as the deputy shadowed the doorway.
Nevertheless, he realized that Sundown's presence in Usher was quite apt to be followed by a wire from the sheriff of Antelope which would complicate matters, to say the least.
The antelope also is vanishing from the Columbia plains before the farmers and cattlemen.
The antelope may still be found in considerable numbers to the northeastward of Shasta, but the elk, once abundant, have almost entirely gone from the region.
Antelope and chinkara (Indian gazelle) horns, if kept in grain baskets, are said to prevent weevils from attacking the grain.
A paste made with antelopehorn is used as an external application for sore throat.
Antelope horn, when powdered and burnt, is said to drive away mosquitoes, and keep scorpions away.
I think the gazelle we killed was identical with the antelope of our western plains.
The Russian dehar is generally made of antelopeor deer skin, and forms an admirable defence against cold.
Formerly the antelope abounded on all the high plains from Manitoba to Mexico and west to Oregon and California.
Illustration: Antelope] Antelope (Antilocapra americana) The antelope is famous as the swiftest quadruped native in America.
Farther away, a pair of lions were hunting; there is no sound more terrible and haunting than the quick, panting noise that is given by this great beast of prey as it follows upon the track of an antelope or deer.
A tall, thin savage, about six feet in height, approached by leaps and bounds, springing like an antelope from one tuft of grass to another.
The fugitive seemed possessed of the agility of an antelope when startled from its midday slumber; he sprang over boulders, he dodged right and left like a snipe.
Another talked to him, too, of his first ibex shot in the Khor Baraka, and of antelopestalked in the mountains northward of Suakin.
The weather had been good, ibex and antelope plentiful.
