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"Cut meat from the eland's flank; don't stop to skin it," I said in my broken Zulu, helping the words out with signs.
Marie An Episode in The Life of the late Allan Quatermain Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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Jantje's lips half a dozen stalwart Kafirs dived into the hut and in another moment reappeared, bearing between them the unhappy patient, stretched upon an eland's skin.
The Adventures of Dick Maitland A Tale of Unknown Africa Harry Collingwood 1886
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Tears trickled from his large dark eye, and it was plain that the eland's hours were numbered.
Forest & Frontiers 1867
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He might have thought of lions, and acted with greater prudence; but the trampling of hoofs which still echoed up the pass told him that lions were not the cause of the eland's alarm.
Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850
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He might have thought of lions, and acted with greater prudence; but the trampling of hoofs which still echoed up the pass told him that lions were not the cause of the eland's alarm.
The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family Mayne Reid 1850
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One man gave four fowls, three large baskets of maize, pumpkins, eland's fat -- a fine male, as seen by his horns, -- and pressed us to stay, that he might see our curiosities as well as others.
The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 David Livingstone 1843
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One man gave four fowls, three large baskets of maize, pumpkins, eland's fat ” a fine male, as seen by his horns, ” and pressed us to stay, that he might see our curiosities as well as others.
The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874
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