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  • On the way I made a long shot and badly wounded a tétel, but lost it in thick thorns; shortly after, I stalked a nellut _ (A. Strepsiceros_), and bagged it with the Fletcher rifle.

    Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • This was great luck, and we now required two camels, as in two shots I had killed a lioness and a nellut (A. Strepsiceros).

    In the Heart of Africa Samuel White Baker 1857

  • For the moment I thought it was a lion, but almost at the same instant I saw a fine nellut dashing away before me, and I killed it immediately with a bullet through the back of the neck.

    In the Heart of Africa Samuel White Baker 1857

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