Pride's prey

Usage examples of eland.

Majuba was the rude hut, hidden in the foothills, that was used by the shepherds who took the Courtney flocks up to the high pastures in the summer, and by the men of the Courtney family when they went out to hunt the quagga, the eland and the blue buck It was deserted at this season of the year.

The windows were slits in the stonework, curtained by the dried skins of eland and blue buck There was an open fireplace in the centre of the earthen floor, with a hole in the roof above to let the smoke escape.

Salted and dried or smoked the flesh of a single eland will last us many weeks.

The eland antelope has a peculiar characteristic, unique in the African wild: the mighty sinews in its legs make a strange click with each step it takes.

Instead of my flesh, which stinks of the carrion I eat, you will have hills of white fat and mountains of the sweet meat of the eland roasting on your fire every night of your life.

Xtog had wondered, although he was beginning to drown in his own saliva at the thought of the eland meat.

Thus Xtog had set Impisi free, and from that day onwards the eland has clicked as he walks to warn the hunter of his approach.

Then the eland looked away, swinging its great head to stare down the slope up which it had come.

Before he could be unsighted by the heavy recoil and the gush of powder smoke, Jim saw the eland hump its back in a mighty spasm.

As the eland subsided and was still, he laid aside the musket and drew the knife from its sheath on his belt.

Jim carried a shoulder of the eland, which almost buckled his knees, and Louisa led the horses.

As soon as they had gone Xhia ran down to dispute what remained of the eland carcass with the vultures.

The three men, white, black and yellow, cut the raw eland meat into thick strips, and the woman sprinkled coarse sea salt from a leather bag on to them then rubbed it in with her palms and spread out the strips on the rocks to cure.

They feasted on thick steaks cut from the long back strips of the eland, and kebabs of kidney, liver and fat grilled over the coals.

Bakkat moved as swiftly through the darkness as any of the other night creatures, but it had been late when he left Majuba, and the dawn light was already strengthening when he reached the remains of the eland carcass.