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The roans were calving in early November; whereas, 
when we went thirty miles on, at an elevation a thousand 
feet less, we at first saw no very young fawns accompany¬ 
ing the hartebeests, and no very young foals with the 
zebras. These hartebeests, which are named after their 
discoverer, Governor Jackson, are totally different from the 
hartebeests of the Athi and the Sotik countries, and are 
larger and finer in every way. One bull I shot weighed, 
in pieces, four hundred and seventy pounds. No allowance 
was made for the spilt blood, and inasmuch as he had 
been hallalled, I think his live weight would have been 
nearly four hundred and ninety pounds. He was a big, 
full-grown bull, but not of extraordinary size; later I killed 
much bigger ones, unusually fine specimens, which must have 
weighed well over five hundred pounds. The horns, which 
are sometimes two feet long, are set on great bony pedicels, 
so that the face seems long and homely even for a harte- 
beest. The first two or three of these hartebeests which I 
killed were shot at long range, for, like all game, they are 
sometimes exceedingly wary; but we soon found that 
normally they were as tame as they were plentiful. We 
frequently saw them close by the herds of the Boer settlers. 
They were the common game of the plains. At times of 
course they were difficult to approach; but again and again, 
usually when we were riding, we came upon not only in¬ 
dividuals but herds, down wind and in plain view, which 
permitted us to approach to within a hundred yards before 
they definitely took flight. Their motions look ungainly 
until they get into their full speed stride. They utter no 
sound save the usual hartebeest sneeze. 
There were bohor reedbuck also, pretty creatures, about 
