. 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, strange peoples and countries found in the course of his travels . m between the horns to the nose and fawn-colored carsnine inches long. The general color is deep blackish purple-brownabove and tawny under body. A dab of slate color extends from themiddle of the shoulder to the knee; and another from the middle ofthe flank to the hock outside. A band of the same color passes acrossthe inside of both fore and hind
. 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, strange peoples and countries found in the course of his travels . m between the horns to the nose and fawn-colored carsnine inches long. The general color is deep blackish purple-brownabove and tawny under body. A dab of slate color extends from themiddle of the shoulder to the knee; and another from the middle ofthe flank to the hock outside. A band of the same color passes acrossthe inside of both fore and hind legs upon a tawny ground. Thelower parts of the legs are of a deep tawny color. The tail is twentv- GRACEFUL AFRICAN ANTELOPES 205 two inches loiii^-, yollowisli red in color and covered with black usual in the antelope family, the female sassaybe is precisely similarbut smaller with more slender horns. It may be easily seen that the markings of the hartebeest andsassaybe, while somewhat alike, are distinctive, and the animals impos-sible to mistake for one another even when some distance away. Themethods of hunting- them are like those described under the head ofthe zebra, and indeed are the same in the case of all animals of these. THE HARNESS DEER general habits and descriptions. Stalking on foot is the surest andmost practical method as a rule, and is the one adopted generally bymost sportsmen. The animals are wary, and w^ere it not for theirhabit of blindly following a leader, even though a considerable distancebehind, shots would be even more difficult to obtain. The Sable Antelope,—One of the most beautiful, and fromthe sportsmans and naturalists point of view desirable, animals knownto the African wilds is the sable antelope. A famous hunter of theearly 40s writes: Our party were in full pursuit of a wounded 2o6 GRACEFUL AFRICAN ANTELOPES elephant when a herd of unusually dark-looking antelopes attractedobservation in a neighboring valley. Reconnoitering them
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