springbucks

The presence of the gemsbuck, duiker or diver, springbucks, or elephants, is no proof that water is near; for these animals roam over vast tracts of country, and may be met scores of miles from it.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

Elands, springbucks, koodoos, and ostriches somehow seem to get along very well without any moisture, except that contained in the grass which they eat.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

Before we came to the Orange River we saw the last portion of a migration of springbucks (‘Gazella euchore’, or tsepe).

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

Bakalahari were found near them, and great numbers of pallahs, springbucks, Guinea-fowl, and small monkeys.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

On the 7th day, having cut the wire near Springfontein, we found large numbers of springbucks in Fauresmith district, and though our supply of ammunition was very limited, we could still afford to spare as many cartridges as would provide sufficient food for men reduced to starvation's point.

In the Shadow of Death P. H. Kritzinger

Impala were as numerous in the areas lying along the river courses as were springbucks on the upland southern plains.

Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer 1899

I have seen hundreds of springbucks sold for a shilling apiece; blesbucks and wildebeeste for half a crown.

Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer 1899

But it could drive a bullet straight, as many springbucks on the plains of the Orange Free State had good cause to know.

Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer 1899

There were all sorts of them, springbucks in myriads, blesbok and quagga and wildebeeste in thousands, sable antelope, sassaby and hartebeeste in herds, eland, giraffe and koodoo in troops; while the forests were full of elephant and the streams of sea-cow.

Swallow: a tale of the great trek Henry Rider Haggard 1890

The presence of the gemsbuck, duiker or diver, springbucks, or elephants, is no proof that water is near; for these animals roam over vast tracts of country, and may be met scores of miles from it.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 David Livingstone 1843