The wildebeeste were out of sight, hidden by grass six feet high, but a branch of the tree beside me served as a horizontal bar and hoisting myself chin high I was able to see them again.
On that day he had, as usual, been the one to see the wildebeeste and had `given the word' in time; the rest was only one straight shot.
I tried to hook the gun out with a stick but the wildebeeste swung round and faced me at once, snapping the sticks and twirling them out of my hands with surprising ease and quickness.
There was something quite ludicrous in it, and something perplexing also: when I looked at the quagga the wildebeeste seemed to get out of focus and were lost to me; when I looked at the wildebeeste the quagga `blurred' and faded out of sight.
Looking hard and carefully at the wildebeeste two hundred yards away, I became conscious of something else in between us, and only half the distance off, looking at me.
No doubt the rifle held in front of me made it difficult to notice anything on the ground; but the concentrated stare across the vlei in the direction of the gallopingwildebeeste was quite as much the cause of what followed.
The rifle, if it had hindered me, also helped: held out at arms length it struck the wildebeeste across the forehead and the collision saved my chest from the horns.
The hartebeeste and the wildebeeste he learns quickly enough, and of course the zebra and the giraffe are unmistakable; but the smaller gazelles are legitimate subjects for discussion.
By fleeting glimpses we saw also many wildebeeste and zebra, with occasionally one of the smaller grass antelope.
After this we contemplated the carcasse of the wildebeeste which it seemed a pity to leave to rot.
My way took me through the Yellow-wood grove, past the horns of the blue wildebeeste which still lay there, past that mud-hole also into which Rodd had fallen dead.
Perhaps you will accept the wildebeeste if it is of any use to you.
We came down to the glen and once more saw the bones of the blue wildebeeste that we had shot--oh!
When things settled themselves a little I discovered the horse rolling on the ground, Anscombe on his back with his hands up in an attitude of prayer and the wildebeeste trying to make up its mind which of them it should finish first.
At last we came to that glade where we had killed the wildebeeste not a week before.
Bang went his rifle, and I saw a bough about a yard above the wildebeeste fall on to its back.
To tell the truth I feared lest he had knocked his head when the wildebeeste upset him, and was suffering from delayed concussion.
The animals further along are blue wildebeeste (gnu), larger than the South African breed.
The wildebeesteis seen feeding and swishing his tail as contentedly as a cow in a pasture.
He sprang quickly aside, and in an instant up went the camera into the air, followed the next moment by the unfortunate Indian, the wildebeeste having stuck its horn right through the man's thigh and tossed him over its back.
Just as I raised the knife to strike, I was startled by the wildebeeste suddenly jumping to his feet.
He turned round in blank astonishment and could hardly believe his eyes when he saw two fine lions only about two hundred yards off, busily engaged in devouring a wildebeeste which they had evidently just killed.
When he was just about to take the picture, he was thunderstruck to see the wildebeeste jump up and come charging down upon him.
I have seen hundreds of springbucks sold for a shilling apiece; blesbucks and wildebeeste for half a crown.
Blue wildebeeste and quagga were so plentiful that we seldom wasted ammunition on them.
Went out to knock over a rabbit or two, and knocked over one of the blue wildebeeste instead.
But--don't stop to shoot any more blue wildebeeste on the way.
Of the wildebeeste remained only a trampled bloody space and bones picked clean.
The wildebeeste plunged wildly here and there, kicking, bucking, menacing the unseen danger with his horns.
His head was high but his eyes roved from right to left restlessly, never still save when they paused for a flickering instant to examine some gazelle, some distant herd of zebra or wildebeeste standing in the vista of the flat-topped trees.
The wildebeeste was rapidly skinned and as rapidly dismembered, the meat laid aside.
Where the wildebeestehad fallen was a writhing, flopping, struggling brown mass.
Nothing was left of the wildebeeste save the head and the veriest offal.
Barring luck, thewildebeeste would thereupon depart "wilder and beestier than ever," as John McCutcheon has it.
I had stalked and wounded a wildebeeste across the N'derogo River, and had followed him a mile or so afoot, hoping to be able to put in a finishing shot.
These and the zebra and wildebeeste were at Juja the most conspicuous game animals.
I say small, because I do not believe that any wildebeeste is ever young.
The wildebeeste is the Jekyll and Hyde of the animal kingdom.
At the same moment the wildebeeste turned, and stopped; but even before he had swung his head, McMillan had fired.
And everywhere that wildebeeste went we too were sure to go.
When we caught sight of this lone wildebeeste among the zebra, I naturally expected that we would pull up the buckboard, descend, and approach to within some sort of long range.
One peculiarity of the wildebeeste is that he cannot see behind him, and another is that he is curious.
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