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EASTERN ETHIOPIA 



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ravaged East Africa in the last decade of the nineteenth 



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century. 



Perhaps the most characteristic antelope of the grass 

 plains of East Africa is the ugly beast known as the 

 hartebeest. 



No one can mistake this animal with its long narrow 



The Wildebeest, or Gnu, in its antics. 



head, intensified by the frontal bones being produced 

 into a high crest surmounted with big acutely angulated 

 and strongly annulated horns. The high withers and 

 tapering croup produce an ungainly appearance enhanced 

 by the awkward gait of the animal, for a hartebeest 

 when galloping suggests an animated rocking-horse. 

 Hartebeests can move very quickly ; they are always 



