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In Africa

CHAPTER XIV
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The Grant's gazelle is a little harder to pick out at first, and one is likely to get the Grant's and Tommy's confused.

But after a short time the difference is apparent, the Grant's being much larger in stature and has much larger horns and is minus the Thompsonian perpetual motion tail.

It certainly is a stirring tail! The impalla is about the same size as the Grant's gazelle, but has horns of a lyrate shape.
The hartebeest is speedily identified, because he is unlike any other antelope in appearance and exists in such large numbers in nearly every part of East Africa.

Indeed, if a returned traveler were asked what animal is most typical of the country he would at once name the hartebeest.

He sees it so much and so often that after a time it seems to be only a necessary fixture in the landscape.


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