Blesbuck

Word BLESBUCK
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That was about six months earlier than the time of which I write, and during those months I had often used this rifle for the shooting of game, such as blesbuck and also of bustards. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)

I shot several blesbuck and wildebeeste, I am sorry to say, for the gratification of mere lust of slaughter, as I could not possibly carry away the meat. ❋ Unknown (1899)

Yes, there stood a small herd of blesbuck; they were not more than eighty yards away. ❋ Unknown (1899)

On our way through the Orange Free State we saw immense herds of springbuck and an occasional herd of blesbuck and wildebeeste. ❋ Unknown (1899)

I remember a locality called "Leeuw Dooms" where blesbuck, wildebeeste, and quagga were in almost incredible abundance. ❋ Unknown (1899)

Just beyond the outskirts of the town were herds of wildebeeste, blesbuck, and quagga grazing quietly about, like so many herds of cattle. ❋ Unknown (1899)

Or did some small boy voortrekker, munching, from the pocket of his blesbuck-skin jacket, dried fruit sent up by some kind tante from the far south, carelessly throw aside a stone which had been accidentally included, and was that the ancestor of those trees which used to afford us so many delightful feasts? ❋ Unknown (1899)

And there, too, is the wild game, following its feeding-grounds in great armies, with the springbuck thrown out before for skirmishers; then rank upon rank of long-faced blesbuck, marching and wheeling like infantry; and last the shining troops of quagga, and the fierce-eyed shaggy vilderbeeste to take, as it were, the place of the cossack host that hangs upon an army's flanks. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)

He was engaged in crawling up a little rise of ground with the obvious intention of shooting at some blesbuck which stood in a hollow beyond with quaggas and other animals, while behind him was a mounted Kaffir who held his master's horse. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)

Jumping into the cart again, and leaving the dead blesbuck to look after itself for the present -- not a very safe thing to do in a country where there are so many vultures -- John, or rather Jantje, put the horses into ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)

Thereon the whole herd of buck turned and came thundering towards them, stretched in a long line across the wide veldt; the springbuck first, then the blesbuck, looking for all the world like a herd of great bearded goats, owing to their peculiar habit of holding their long heads down as they galloped. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)

About half a mile beneath them was a great herd of blesbuck feeding, three hundred or more of them, and beyond them another herd of some sixty or seventy much larger and wilder-looking animals with white tails, which John at once recognised as vilderbeeste. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)

This went on for nearly an hour, in which time he had fired twenty-seven cartridges and killed three blesbuck and wounded a vilderbeeste, which they proceeded to chase. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)

About twenty blesbuck turned and came straight past John, at a distance of forty yards. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)

- lion - wildebeest - blesbuck interactions and more! ❋ Unknown (2010)

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