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two inches long, yellowish red in color and covered with black hair. 
As usual in the antelope family, the female sassaybe is precisely similar 
but smaller with more slender horns. 
It may be easily seen that the markings of the hartebeest and 
sassaybe, while somewhat alike, are distinctive, and the animals impos¬ 
sible to mistake for one another even when some distance away. The 
methods of hunting them are like those described under the head of 
the zebra, and indeed are the same in the case of all animals of these 
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general habits and descriptions. Stalking on foot is the surest and 
most practical method as a rule, and is the one adopted generally by 
most sportsmen. The animals are wary, and were it not for their 
habit of blindly following a leader, even though a considerable distance 
behind, shots would be even more difficult to obtain. 
The Sable Antelope.—"One of the most beautiful, and from 
the sportsman’s and naturalist’s point of view desirable, animals known 
to the African wilds is the sable antelope. A famous hunter of the 
early ’40s writes: “Our party were in full pursuit of a wounded 
