blesbuck

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.

Marie An Episode in The Life of the late Allan Quatermain 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.

Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer 1899

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

Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer 1899

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

Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer 1899

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

Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer 1899

Yes, there stood a small herd of blesbuck; they were not more than eighty yards away.

Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer 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?

Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer 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.

The Tale of Three Lions 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.

The Ghost Kings 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

Jess Henry Rider Haggard 1890