The huge body sprang; but instead of the man the kongoni was struck down!
What had so terrified the kongoni it would be impossible to say.
The next day after the killing of the lioness Memba Sasa, Kongoni and I dropped off the bench, and hunted greater kudu on a series of terraces fifteen hundred feet below.
In fact, some of the most enterprising like Memba Sasa, Kitaru, and, later, Kongoni used of their own accord to hunt up and bring in seeds and blossoms.
I saw a kongoni leave a band of its own species far down to our right, gallop toward us and across our front, pick up a herd of zebra we were trying to approach and make off with them to safety.
It immensely complicates matters; for the sportsman must not only stalk his quarry, but he must stalk each and every kongoni as well.
On the contrary I have seen kongoni grazing quite peacefully with flames on three sides of them.
Kongoni in especial was wonderful at this, and time and again picked up a broken grass blade or the minutest inch-fraction of disturbed earth.
When a gentleman kongoni conceives a dislike for another gentleman kongoni, he makes no concealment of his emotions, but marches up and prods him in the ribs.
Each day Memba Sasa and I went in one direction, while Mavrouki and Kongonitook another line.
I, with Mavrouki, built a fire and stayed, while Kongoni went to camp after men.
A band of zebras grazed the side of one of the earth waves, a group of gazelles walked on the skyline, a herd of kongoni rested in the hollow between.
If the horse is an especially good one, so that the kongoni feels himself a trifle closely pressed, the latter stops bouncing and runs.
The kongoni progresses by a series of long high bounds.
Kongoni heads, but I must say I admired immensely this persistence to get at a definite knowledge about a common beast.
We regarded Kongoni like the flocks on a hundred mountains.
Some zebras and kongoni have been killed and left lying in likely-looking places to attract the lions; and at 4 a.
Zebra, wildebeeste, and kongoni were to be seen in troops and herds, scattered near and far over the plains, but never a rhinoceros!
The kongoni is found nearly every place in East Africa.
To me the kongoni appealed most strongly because of his droll appearance and because of a many-sided character that stirs one's imagination.
His eyes are as keen as those of a hawk, and when a herd is feeding there are always several kongoni sentinels posted on ant-hills in such a strategic way that not a thing moves anywhere on the plains that escapes their attention.
If the kongonisends out a 4-11 alarm, the zebra will hike off in a Shetland-pony-like gallop and run some distance before stopping.
The sportsman swears at the kongoni because it so often alarms the quarry he is stalking.
Drawing: Two Kongoni on Guard] We could not tell which ones of this herd were bulls, but assumed that there must surely be several small-sized or young bulls among them.
The kongoni often risks his own life to warn other herds of animals of the approach of danger, and if I were going to write an animal story I'd use the kongoni as my hero.
The kongoni went a little way off and then turned and grinned broadly.
We met one man who goes out ten minutes from town every other day and kills a kongoni (hartebeest) as food for his dogs.
Sometimes we have kongoni steaks, at other times we have the heart of waterbuck or the liver of bushbuck or impalla.
Standing, the kongoni is a picture of alert, interested good humor; running, he is extremely funny, as he bounces along on legs that seem to be stiffened so that he appears to rise and fall in his stride like a huge rubber ball.
Oftentimes I have cautiously crept to the top of a ridge to scan the plains, and there, a mile away, a kongoni would be looking at me with great interest.
So finally we decided to get ahead of them and watch them as they passed us, but just as we had reached a point where they were approaching, the two kongoni gave a shrill alarm and the entire herd made off in tremendous haste.
There is no way to explain this except to attribute it to thought transference, and this in spite of the fact that the kongoni doesn't understand English.
I overheard Kongoni chide him, and I spoke to him sharply, but he still kept the rifle at his shoulder; whereupon I slapped his face just before shooting the rhino.
To make it impressive, Kongoni and the second tent-boy were summoned to attend, which they did with pleased anticipation.
We sent Kongoni into camp for help, and ourselves proceeded to build up the usual fire for signal and for protection against wild beasts.
Kongoni was plainly sceptical, and said so until I shut him up with some rather peremptory sarcasm.
We had proceeded but a few miles when Kongoni discovered a herd of topi.
Occasionally it even becomes necessary to whistle aside some impertinentkongoni that has placed himself between the metals!
We lay here looking the place over inch by inch through our glasses, when an ejaculation of disgust from Kongoni called our attention.
Now as Kongoni had but this minute completed the round trip to camp, we concluded that he would be the best one to give us a lead.
Next day I left Kongoni and one porter at the old camp, loaded my men with what they could carry, and started out.
Next morning, in a joking manner, I tried to impress Kongoni with a sense of delinquency in not knowing better his directions, especially as he had twice traversed the route.
Kongoni would puzzle out the tracks as far as possible before dark.
We dispatchedKongoni for help and lanterns, and turned to on the job of building a signal fire and skinning the trophy.
Every few moments Kongoni would want another look at that compass.
I felt this from the first; but Kongoni insisted strongly he was right, and in the rain and darkness we had no way of proving him wrong.
Kongoni was very positive he was right; but as we had now been walking over an hour, and camp should not have been more than three miles from where we had killed the roan, we were inclined towards my instinct.
We had not gone ten minutes when Kongoniturned his head cautiously and grinned back at us.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kongoni" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
