SASSABY OR BASTARD HARTEBEEST 



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Head of Sassaby. From a specimen shot in Mashonaland by Mr. F. C. Selous. 

 SASSABY or BASTARD HARTEBEEST (Damaliscus lunatus). 



Incolomo of the Matabili. 

 Ingalowana of the Basutos. 

 Inkweko of the Masubias. 

 Inyundo of the Makalakas. 

 Kaboli in Barotsiland and 

 Ngami country. 



Lake 



Luchu of the Masaras. 



M'tengo in the Chilala and Chibisa 



countries. 



Mzanci of the Swazis. 

 Mzanzi of all Zulu tribes 

 Unchuru of the Makubas. 



Horns starting obliquely outwards, with a single upward and back- 

 ward lunate curve. Height at shoulder nearly 4 feet. General colour 

 dark chestnut-rufous, with the face, shoulders, hips, upper portions of 

 limbs, and tail-tuft black, and the region of the groin and margin of 

 the ears white. 



The sassaby has the reputation in the opinion of all hunters 

 who have tested its speed of being the fleetest and most enduring 

 animal in South Africa. Were it not that this handsome antelope, 

 in common with its near relative the Cape hartebeest, happens to be 

 lacking in presence of mind, it would very seldom fall to the sportsman's 

 rifle. A troop of sassaby may be often turned from their course, or 



