He went out with a rifle and five cartridges to kick up a duiker along the river bank here, and somehow or other got astray towards sundown, and lost his head completely.
The duiker is another little antelope that one meets frequently in the grassy places of East Africa.
In fact, it gets its Dutch name for that reason, duiker bok, meaning "diving buck" in Dutch.
Some patches of grass and weeds on the leeward side of a ravine at once attracted him; there he thought either a reitbok or a duiker should be found, and either would supply enough food for two days.
The fellow was off like a duiker [the duiker is a small, quick antelope], but he'd an old hunter to deal with.
On the evening of the first and the morning of the second day we passed through some quite uninhabited country, and here I shot twoduiker antelopes and a steinbuck.
By this means three duiker were soon killed, and we then lighted a fire, and enjoyed a feast of venison.
The duiker then started out on the side opposite to that from which the stones had been thrown, and was met by a shower of assagies, one or two of which usually hit it.
We walked on over the hills and through the bush, occasionally stopping for an hour or two, to hunt duiker or red bush-buck, both of which were plentiful about this part of the country.
Then the inkalimeva hid itself, and the duiker looked for it till he was so tired that he lay down and went to sleep.
It proposed to the duiker that they should play hide and look for.
They put fat in the kraal a third time, and appointed the duiker (impunzi) to be the keeper of the gate.
When the duiker was asleep, the inkalimeva ate up all the fat.
There's a fair number of bushbuck in the kloofs--duiker and blekbok too, guinea fowl, and other small fry.
There was plenty of fresh duiker spoor to show us that we were in a likely place, one spoor in particular being so fresh in the mud that it seemed only a few minutes old.
While Jock was at it fast and furious in front, I tried to creep up quietly behind--but it was no use: theduiker kept facing Jock with horns down, and whenever I moved it swung round and kept me in front also.
The sun was hot, the sand was deep, and the rifle was hard to find; it was a long way back to the waggons, and the duiker made a heavy load; but the end of that first chase seemed so good that nothing else mattered.
He had it by the throat where the flesh is bare of quills, and had kept himself out of reach of the terrible spikes by pulling away all the time, just as he had done with the duiker and other buck to avoid their hind feet.
In grim silence he hung on while the duiker plunged, and, when it fell, tugged and worried as if to shake the life out of it.
I followed this one down for a couple of miles without any definite purpose until the sight of some greener and denser wild figs suggested that there might be water, and perhaps a rietbuck or a duiker near by.
Jock regaining his feet dashed in, jumped aside, feinted again and again, as he had learnt to do when big horns swished at him; and he kept out of reach just as he had done ever since the duiker taught him the use of its hoofs.
It was hardly possible to miss that; and as the duiker rolled over, I dropped my rifle and ran to make sure of it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "duiker" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
