CHAPTER V 
TIANG {Damaliscus tiang) 
Arabic —•Tdtel 
Once the true big-game country is reached, the hunter 
will hardly traverse many miles ere he finds himself 
confronted by a troop of tiang. And a singular 
silhouette they present as they stand on gaze, facing 
full-front towards the intruder, rigid and erect, nothing 
more than long black faces and thin necks showing 
above the deep grass. Viewed thus, their horns strike 
one as strangely short and stumpy, since the upright 
carriage of the head conceals the long receding tips from 
sight. Or, should the sun be already well up, the hunter’s 
first introduction may be to a listless group, all quiescent 
and with drooping heads, half-asleep in the shade of some 
far-away mimosa-grove (p. 83). The animals are deep 
mahogany-red, with high withers and sloping quarters. 
“Tetel,” whispers your swarthy companion; but the 
information is needless, since there is no mistaking a 
hartebeest. That tribe is a thing apart among all 
wild Nature’s infinite designs. The almost exaggerated 
length of the face, carried rigidly erect, and prolonged 
by upright horns set in the same plane, together with 
the formal sloping figure, form a combination like nothing 
else on earth. 
The tiang, however, is not a true hartebeest 
(. Bubalis) but belongs to the allied genus Damaliscus , 
distinguishable even in the field by the lesser development 
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