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EASTERN ETHIOPIA 
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ravao'ed 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 
liartebeest. 
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 liartebeest 
when galloping suggests an animated rocking-horse. 
Hartebeests can move very quickly ; they are always 
