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the Boers and aborigines, I am convinced they never by any chance taste. 

 The flesh ranks next to the eland. The gemsbok is by no means fleet, and 

 it can be run to a standstill by a hunter on foot. 



In Abyssinia and Somaliland as well as on the Red Sea littoral near 

 Suakin, the gemsbok is replaced by the beisa, readily distinguished by the 



FEMALE SABRE-HORNED ANTELOPE AND FAWN. 



absence of the tuft of hair on the throat, and by the black patch on the 

 front of the face being completely separated from the stripe running through 

 the eye. The horns are shorter than those of the gemsbok. The sabre- 

 horned antelope differs from the others of the oryx family in its recurved 

 scimitar-like horns, and whitish color which sometimes shows a reddish 

 tinge. 



