Now the waterbuck does not leave the river for any great distance.
It is called waterbuck because it is never found far from the banks of a river or other water, in which it delights to plunge, and bathe itself during the hot sunshiny hours of the day.
I have said "famed" antelope, because the waterbuck is in reality one of the finest and most famous animals of the whole tribe.
Still a third species of waterbuck has turned up during the recent explorations to the afore-mentioned lake; but this, though in habit very similar to the others, differs widely in regard to its physical characteristics.
The boys expected to see the waterbuck rear back, and attempt to escape.
The one now seen was not over ten feet long; and the strongwaterbuck might have been a full match for it, had it not been for the unfair hold which it had taken.
The character of the waterbuck for fierceness and daring also belongs to the takhaitze, and both are swift runners.
Their purpose was to follow the course already taken by the waterbuck until they should have sneaked within better range.
A herd or so of eland also liked this covered country; and there were always a few waterbuck and rhinoceroses about.
Below us, about fifteen yards away, was the carcass of a waterbuck half hidden in the foot-high grass.
Still, at the risk of seeming to be perpetually qualifying, I must instance finding three lions actually on the stale carcass of a waterbuck at eleven o'clock in the morning of a piping hot day!
Then came the porters in single file, the one carrying the folded lion skin leading the way; those bearing the waterbuck trophy and meat bringing up the rear.
The flesh of the waterbuck is coarse and unpleasant, and not at all palatable to Europeans; and as the hunters had plenty of meat at their camp, the Berg Damaras were welcome to this fresh food supply.
Returning up the valley, Guy shot a finewaterbuck bull.
On the way thither, I killed two zebras, a waterbuck and a Thomsonii.
The shooting that I had while at Shooa was confined to antelopes; of these there was no variety excepting waterbuck and hartebeest.
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.
We had not gone very far before I caught sight of a fine waterbuck and successfully bowled him over--a good omen for the day, which put us all in excellent spirits.
The meat is so coarse and tough that even the porters, who seldom draw the line at eating anything their teeth can penetrate, do not care for waterbuck meat except under the stress of great hunger.
Wildebeest Hartebeest Hyena Jackal Thompson's Gazelle Lion Rabbit Waterbuck Impalla Giant Bustard Ostrich Wart-hog Wild Dog Steinbuck Grant's Gazelle Surely there is still some game left in Africa.
They do like the skin, however, for it is of the waterbuck skin that their best sandals are made.
What the correspondent meant to say was that the colonel had secured a sing-sing waterbuck and a topi.
Sometimes we have kongoni steaks, at other times we have the heart of waterbuck or the liver of bushbuck or impalla.
Both of these varieties of waterbuck are beautiful animals, almost as large as a steer, and with great sweeping horns that often exceed twenty-five inches in length.
Consequently, when a waterbuck is killed there is a fierce scramble among the porters to secure portions of the hide for this purpose.
It was late in the afternoon, and I was sitting on a rock looking over the open country to the south, when I heard a slight noise, and turning my eyes saw a fine male waterbuck coming towards me up the ridge.
The waterbuck swam a little longer, the fine head dropped, the body turned over, and one of the canoes dragged it ashore.
To escape the hunter, the waterbuck jumped into the river, and was swimming across, when another crocodile gave chase, but a ball soon sent it to the bottom.
Herds of waterbuck and buffalo come to the banks of the river, and lazily watch the steamers pass; and even elephant have been occasionally seen of late playing in their old haunts.
After an eventful night, during which leopards coughed, lions roared, hyaenas dashed into camp and bolted with my best waterbuck head, we all turned out early.
Hundreds of reedbuck dashed wildly about the plains, and a few kobus and waterbuck were seen in the distance, but, the grass being very short, there was no chance of a stalk.
We were making tracks back to the camp, walking our horses slowly along the bank of the river, when Frank got off to shoot a waterbuck (Aigoceros ellipsiprymnus).
In stalking the waterbuck he had come across buffalo, and had wounded one, which with two others was still in view.
A few extracts front my journal will describe the gradual progress of the settlement: "Mr. Higginbotham shot a waterbuck during an exploratory ramble that we took through the forest, in search of large timber for building purposes.
I expected to return without seeing game, when we suddenly spied a few waterbuck in the sandy bed of the river, about 300 paces distant.
Some of our Lobore natives, who had kept at a distance behind us, now came up, and in a short time the noble waterbuck was cut up and the flesh carried into camp.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "waterbuck" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: animal; antelope; armadillo; bat; elephant; hare; horse; kangaroo; mammal; opossum; pig; rat
