Roosevelt's African trip; the story of his life, the voyage from New York to Mombasa, and the route through the heart of Africa, including the big game and other ferocious animals found in the course (14728847626)

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Title: Roosevelt's African trip; the story of his life, the voyage from New York to Mombasa, and the route through the heart of Africa, including the big game and other ferocious animals ... found in the course of his travels
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Unger, Frederic William, 1875-
Subjects: Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Philadelphia? Pa.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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endowed him with, but one has only to witness one buffalocharge to be convinced of his great speed forever after. The buffalos eyes are a very good indication of his character.They are small and sinister, overshadowed by rough and ponderousdark colored horns, nearly in contact at the base, spreading hori-zontally, and turned upwards and inwards at the tips, which measurefrom four to five feet between. The hide is bluish purple, black andbare with the exception of a few bristles. The muzzle is square andmoist, shaped like that of the ox. The female is like the male, butsmaller. They inhabit the plains and forests of the interior in largeherds. CHAPTER XIX Graceful African Antelopes WITHOUT diverging from the species known as Ruminants,we now come to the division called Antelopes, a subfamilybelonging to the old world and chiefly African Ruminants.They differ from cattle in their smaller size, more lithe and gracefulform, slenderer legs, which are comparatively longer in the shank, and
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THE GNOO Resembles the Horse and Buffalo (i99) 2oo GRACEFUL AFRICAN ANTELOPES longer neck with slenderer vertebrae, uplifting the head. The familyof antelopes shades directly into that of the sheep and goats, being-separated from them by no technical characteristic, but the hornsusually differ. Upwards of fifty African species have been described,but we shall not attempt to deal with very rare species, but shall confineourselves to those well known and commonly met with. No agree-ment has been reached by naturalists upon the different divisions of thegroup. The antelopes include the smallest and most delicate gazelles,steinboks and springboks, the bulky eland and hartebeest, as well asthe misshapen gnoo or wildebeest. We shall begin our description ofthis graceful and interesting family with the latter. The Gnoo.—Of all four-footed animals it is probably the mostawkward and grotesque. Resembling in some respects both the horseand buffalo, the full-grown male stands upwards of four f