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hartebeests are extremely wary antelopes ; they are possessed of marvellous 

 powers of scent and hearing, and, upon the whole, they have managed to 

 maintain their ground against the many hunters, white, black, and off- 

 coloured, who" pursue them, at least as well as most other South African 

 beasts of chase— far better, in fact, than a good many species. The desert 

 nature of much of their habitat has, no doubt, enabled them thus to prolong 

 their unequal combat against the advances of civilisation and the increasing 

 plenty of arms of precision. No antelope is more tenacious of lite, or will 

 oftener succeed in running long distances, and even making good its escape, 

 although carrying the most severe wounds. 



The flesh of the hartebeest, although dark in colour, is fairly good 

 eating, though nothing like so good as springbok, eland, or klipspringer. 

 It is used a good deal as bultong, and in that form (cut into strips, slightly 

 salted and sun-dried) is very palatable. A hartebeest stew is by no 

 means bad. 



These animals are to be found in troops ranging from a dozen to fifty. 

 In recent years I have seen troops of eighteen or so in British Bechuanaland, 

 and as many as thirty or forty in the North Kalahari thirstlands. Occasion- 

 ally troops are to be met with numbering as many as eighty or a hundred. 

 The cows usually calve between the beginning of September and November. 



H. A. Bryden. 



Jackson's Hartebeest (Bubalis jacksoni) 

 British East Africa 



All the hartebeests are known to the Swahilis by one name only — 

 Kongoni. The Masai call this animal Elgusoroi and also E/gorigor, and the 

 Wanderobbo Rogoivek. 



Of the hartebeests found in East Africa, of which there are four kinds, 

 the other three being B. lichtensteini, or leucoprymnus of Dr. Matschie, cokei, 



