Up to now our hunting had gained us little beside information: that kudu had occasionally visited the region, that they had not been there for a month, and that the direction of their departure had been obscure.
The greater kudu is, with the bongo, easily the prize beast in East Africa, and very few are shot.
The kudu business was about finished, as far as this place went, so we decided to take a look for the lions.
We had been hunting greaterkudu for five weeks before we finally landed one.
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.
The kudu is largely protected in East Africa, and in my shooting experience I was not in a district where he was to be found.
KUDU (koodoo), the native name for a large species of African antelope (q.
The hyæna had given up the chase some thirty yards further on, where the kudu had entered the bush.
The jumping powers of the lesser kudu are simply marvellous.
Lesser kudu appear to bark only when they scent danger but are unable to see it.
The kudu had taken a flying leap over this bush, and the distance between the spoor of her hind feet where she took off and the edge of the bush was 15 ft.
The meat of the lesser kudu also affects certain constitutions only, but in a different way, as it acts as a salivant, and causes great pain in the mouth and gums.
The chance was slight that the kudu could be found, but still it was a chance.
Through the glasses the mane of the kudu showed as a dim gray streak.
He rushed up to shake both my hands; he examined the kudu with an attention that was held only by great restraint; he let go that restrain to shake me again enthusiastically by the hands.
If the kudu fed on out of sight into the cover, we could not possibly get a shot; if he should happen again to cross the opening, we would get a good shot.
In the dense scrub dwell a shy and rare animal called the lesserkudu specimens of which we greatly desired.
They were sufficient for our needs; and the lesser kudu was a prize much desired for our collection.
We had only the one rifle with us, for we were supposed to be out after kudu only, and were travelling as light as possible.
Taking up the tracks from this point, I was delighted to find that the kudu had forgotten its fear, and was browsing.
Always we conscientiously looked over good kudu country, hundreds of miles of it, and always with the same lack of result, or even of encouragement.
After staring long enough, we could dimly make out thekudu himself browsing, from the tender branch-ends.
Before we had arrived quite at the spot we caught a glimpse of the fivekudu as they dashed across a tiny opening ahead of us.
In the meantime I sent out my best trackers in all directions to look for kudu signs, conceiving this the best method of covering the country rapidly.
If the kudu still lingered we had to find it out before we ventured out of cover to take up his trail.
The lure of the greater kudu was regaining the strength it had lost by a long series of disappointments.
The kududid neither of these things; he ceased browsing, took three steps forward, and stood.
The horns are spiral, like those of the kudu antelope and Wallachian sheep.
The kirangozi blew his kudu horn much more merrily on this morning than he was accustomed to do while in Ugogo.
It rises in the form of a lofty cupola, and on the summit of it, they say, are the remains of an Atush Kudu or Fire Temple.
After some trouble a malekudu fell to my share, and Saat Tato, the hunter, dropped a hartebeest.
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