Jan had correctly given many of the characteristic points of that, perhaps, the most singular of all ruminant animals, the wildebeest or gnoo (Catoblepas gnoo).
For the last half-hour I was too busy watching the manoeuvres of the wildebeest bull, to take my gaze off him for a moment.
I have said that thewildebeest had broken down several of the lesser turrets--the outworks of the ant-hill--and had laid open the hollow spaces within.
I felt that I was now safe--that the wildebeest could not get near me; and I sat perched upon the top of the central cone, watching his movements with perfect coolness.
I was still in hopes the wildebeest would tire out and leave me, and then I could soon run home.
Now, before passing the kerchief over my face, I always shook it open; and each time I did so, I noticed that the rage of the wildebeest seemed to be redoubled!
If I leaped down, the wildebeest would kill me to a certainty.
What could there be in my wiping my face to provoke the wildebeest anew?
Parting the bushes cautiously and gazing out on the fairly open glade, all could see a good sized herd of wildebeest grazing a quarter of a mile away.
Some hunters brought in three wildebeest and an antelope this morning and the whole tribe's feasting up.
They've located a herd of wildebeest an' hartebeest just ahead.
I sprang out into the darkness, seizing one of the pieces of wildebeest meat as I did so; and, as the village was surrounded with long grass, pursuit would have been hopeless, and was not attempted.
Passing along the Crocodile river, where a drought set in and drove the game to the neighbourhood of the river, Selous managed to kill a few good specimens of hartebeest and wildebeest which he preserved.
I did not get a Jackson's Wildebeest as, although there were thousands all along the line when I went up country, when I came back to try to get one, they had migrated south.
It was now necessary to wait for the rains, but as they did not come Selous, tired of shooting wildebeest and zebra on the Mababe flats, once more returned to the Chobe to look for elephants.
Luckily at this moment a single wildebeest came by within thirty yards and furnished an abundant supply of meat.
We had often heard that the brain of the wildebeest harbours gentles or grubs, to which its wild extraordinary vagaries are attributed, and being anxious to ascertain the truth of such a strange phenomenon, the head was opened by Dr.
Our tents had not long been pitched when hundreds of wildebeest appeared not a mile off.
From a low ridge we now saw the most magnificent sight; on an immense plain hundreds of wildebeest grazed in herds scattered far and near, with springbok and blesbok.
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.
This time I missed entirely and repeatedly and the wildebeest remains unscathed to roam the broad plains of the Athi until some better or luckier shot passes his way.
Enormous herds of hartebeest and wildebeest were on each side, and countless zebras.
Drawing: Wildebeest With the White Man Only Eight Miles Away] In our last few days' shooting out on the Athi Plains we saw perhaps fifty or seventy-five of these great bison-like animals.
My last shot in Africa, the day before leaving for the coast, was at a wildebeest an hour or so out of Nairobi.
You will find also lots of springbok and steinbok and some blackwildebeest (gnu) on the plains beyond the mountains.
Note: The common gnu or wildebeest (Catoblephas gnu) is plain brown; the brindled gnu or blue wildebeest (C.
As they will, as a rule, pull up a short way off, the sportsman will have the annoyance of again adopting the same tactics, with probably like results, until he might almost believe that the wildebeest is enjoying itself at his expense.
In the daylight wild animals, especially the wildebeest and quagga, show but little fear, running up to within fifty yards, and gazing at him as if fascinated.
If they happened to be anywhere near our line of march, they had instructions to step heavily on their toes, and, pressing the sand behind them, to make as good an imitation as they could of frightened wildebeest or quagga.
Do you, Guy, take Poeskop, and ride quietly for the big troop of blue wildebeest on the right.
I take most of those clumps to be blue wildebeest and quacha," he said presently.
He now turned his attention to the wildebeest of which he was in pursuit.
The blue wildebeest were neglected now; which should he first go for, the buffaloes or the rhinoceroses?
Knowing their habits so well, and that more would shortly come, I walked about 100 yards away to a wildebeest hole, which that animal scrapes to sleep in.
No large game has been seen, although the natives tell me there are koodoos, blue wildebeest or gnu, hartebeest and springbok.
On my last journey I found a trader, a Mr. Okenshow, outspanned, who told me several lions had killed three blue wildebeest the previous night, and advised me not to let my oxen go out of my sight in the thick bush.
I was, however, soon undeceived, for on galloping out into an open place, I saw an old blue wildebeest bull lumbering along in front of me.
We found subsequently, on examining the place where he had been lying in the grass at the foot of the ant-hill, that he had vomited great lumps of the meat and skin of a wildebeest on which he had been feasting the preceding night.
A second and larger species is the brindled gnu or blue wildebeest (C.
Then the wildebeest made a swift rush for about sixty yards and collapsed.
The other wildebeest ran away for about fifty yards; then he wheeled round and stood facing me.
Before I had gone five hundred yards from the camp I noticed two very large blue wildebeest bulls on my left.
Hence their trivial names of "blauw" wildebeest and "brindled" gnoo.
Many a quagga, and wildebeest and sassybe, had he ridden down; many a stanch buck-dog had he tired out and passed in the chase with the heavy weight of Groot Willem on his back.
The springboks did not interest them; but the flesh of the wildebeest would have been a treat to all.
Hendrik, and all the rest echoing this, they charged down upon the wildebeest herd.
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