Word: hartebeest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the South African Government ordered the slaughter of 15,000 game animals in Zululand. The hope was that no game would mean no nagana. The great Hluhluwe Reserve, last home of the white rhinoceros, will not be invaded, but in the surrounding areas the waterbuck and hartebeest, the dainty duiker and the lordly kudu*-all the smooth-haunched animals on whose bellies the tsetse feeds-will be exterminated by professional hunters under supervision of the government...
...Maugham tale could have no better setting than the swank Muthaiga Country Club on a cooling hill outside flat, sunny Nairobi, capital of Kenya Colony. Scarcely one hour's drive from the haunts of zebra, giraffe and hartebeest, the Mut-haiga's members have built themselves a sporting retreat as refreshing as those they remember in Old England. From the club terrace, after nightfall, visitors may watch red, green and white fireflies flickering over the Kikuyu grass lawns...