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He had been shooting some of the various kinds of antelopes which abound in that country, under various names, such as wildebeests, springboks, blesboks, and pallahs, when the adventure occurred, which he thus describes.

From Forest and Frontiers Or, Adventures Among the Indians by Gordon-Cumming, Roualeyn

I’ve seen skins taken off blesboks and wildebeestes full of holes.

From A Dash from Diamond City by Stewart, F.A.

It was plain that the blesboks ran in the “wind’s eye,” else they never would have “run the gauntlet” against Klaas and Jan, as they had done.

From The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Reid, Mayne

The blesboks made not the slightest double—swerved not a point from their course, but ran in a straight line, dead in the wind’s eye.

From The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Reid, Mayne

Of course they did not commence crouching, until they had tried how near the blesboks would allow them to come without cover.

From The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Reid, Mayne