I took no horse, for I thought I saw springboks out on the plain; and I would stalk them better afoot.
They were induced to take this direction by observing that the springboks had come from the north.
To follow the spoor of the migratory springboks with the hope of recovering their flock would be quite useless.
It occurred to Hendrik that it might be their habit to browse up the wind, as springboks and some other species do.
Had I known what had been causing it, I should have fought my way in any other direction but that; but there was I, out in the open ground, the lion not ten paces from me, and a fence of springboks two deep around both of us!
The great game had gone; only the springboks and smaller antelopes remained to remind them of the teeming plenty of the brave days of smooth-bores and flint-locks.
There were some springboks and blesboks running on the place--remnants of those mighty herds of game which formerly blackened the Free State plains.
When people of that sort turn up we don't sell 'em Springboks in the City.
I thought he had lots of coin, so when Springboks came along he and I went shares in underwriting them.
Were it not for Dodge and his Springboks he might have gone on indefinitely covering up the criminal's tracks by his own friendly actions.
Springboks would do so, said Groot Willem to himself.
Groot Willem alone, from time to time, had been jaging springboks and such other game as is to be found among the settlements.
Within the frontier districts, springboks are plenty, as also the common wildebeests; and piles of the horns of these may be seen lying around the kraals of every vee-boor.
The springboks did not interest them; but the flesh of the wildebeest would have been a treat to all.
In this respect they resemble the springboks and other gazelles; but they have habits peculiar to themselves.
The springboks were browsing, though some individuals were constantly in the air bounding up as if for their own amusement.
The springboks were still distractedly tossing here and there, but the army to which he belonged had moved on.
I again fired, but missed, when I stopped to reload; and just then looking up, I saw a high precipice, towards which several of the springboks were making.
The springboks are so called from their wonderful agility.
We had been gradually ascending, when Donald disappeared among the rocks and trees to the right, and shortly afterwards I found myself going down the somewhat steep side of a hill, with a number of springboks directly ahead of me.
We had not gone far when an exclamation of pleasure burst from Donald, and I saw to the southward a vast herd of springboks crossing from east to west.
Away the springboks went, leaping over the rocks with wonderful agility.
Fancying that I saw two springbokson the horizon I pointed them out to my boy.
Some had been successful, some had failed, but a good many springboks had been killed, and all were hearty as crickets and hungry as hyenas.
Remounting I rode to the edge of the clump of bushes and found several of my companions, some of whom carried the carcasses of springboks at their cruppers.
Usually, when thus taken by surprise, the springboksstop for a moment or two and gaze at the kneeling hunter.
This affords a splendid though brief chance to take good aim, but thespringboks were not inquisitive that day.
We could not see anything distant for the bushes, but presently we came to the edge of an open space, into which several springboks were trotting with a confusedly surprised air.
Another flock of springboks was discovered at this moment on a distant knoll, towards which we trotted, trippled, and cantered.
Soon we perceived two of our comrades driving a flock of springboks towards the river.
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