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two inches loiii^-, yollowisli red in color and covered with black hair. 

 As usual in the antelope family, the female sassaybe is precisely similar 

 but smaller with more slender horns. 



It may be easily seen that the markings of the hartebeest and 

 sassaybe, while somewhat alike, are distinctive, and the animals impos- 

 sible to mistake for one another even when some distance away. The 

 methods of hunting- them are like those described under the head of 

 the zebra, and indeed are the same in the case of all animals of these 



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general habits and descriptions. Stalking on foot is the surest and 

 most practical method as a rule, and is the one adopted generally by 

 most sportsmen. The animals are wary, and w^ere it not for their 

 habit of blindly following a leader, even though a considerable distance 

 behind, shots would be even more difficult to obtain. 



The Sable Antelope, — One of the most beautiful, and from 

 the sportsman's and naturalist's point of view desirable, animals known 

 to the African wilds is the sable antelope. A famous hunter of the 

 early '40s writes: "Our party were in full pursuit of a wounded 



