hartbeests

That the country was teeming with game soon became apparent, for ever and anon as we advanced a herd of gnus or buffaloes or hartbeests would dart affrighted from their cover, and sweep over the open ground into another place of shelter, out of which they were again driven as the line advanced.

The Gorilla Hunters 1859

In the course of half an hour we drove out hartbeests, zebras, gnus, buffaloes, giraffes, rhinoceroses, and many other kinds of smaller game, either singly or in herds.

The Gorilla Hunters 1859

"They are hartbeests," said Donald, "and will give us a good chase; but we may get within shot of them at last."

In the Wilds of Africa William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

On we dashed, the hartbeests going away directly from the camp.

In the Wilds of Africa William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

a herd of a dozen buffaloes, now twenty zebras and as many cameleopards might be seen scampering over the plain, followed by numerous steinboks or koodoos, graceful oryxes or hartbeests leaping and bounding away before them.

In the Wilds of Africa William Henry Giles Kingston 1847