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wilder. The hartebeests are rather tame, and they and the 
Scemmerring’s gazelles are always the last to move away. 
Hartebeests have great curiosity, and will frequently rush round 
a caravan, halting now and then within two hundred yards to 
gaze. This sight is an extraordinary one, all the antelopes 
THE SOMALI HARTEBEEST (Bubalis swaynet). 
Length of horns on curve, 20} inches. 
having heavy and powerful fore-quarters, while the hind-quarters 
are poor and fall away ; the coat is glossy like that of a well- 
groomed horse. In the mid-day haze of the plains they look 
something like troops of lions, as the powerful head and neck 
are of a different shade of chestnut from the rest of the body. 
The pace of the hartebeest is an ungraceful, lumbering canter, 
but it is probably the fleetest and most enduring of the Somali 
