The animals had gone away before Hans could get his gun ready; and they supposed he had to follow some distance before he could overtake them--that might be the reason they had heard no shot.
"What sort of animals were they ?" They had all seen them plain enough, as they drank.

They had never seen any of the kind before.

They were large animals of a yellow brown colour, with shaggy manes, and long tufts of hair growing out of their breasts, and hanging down between their fore-legs.

They were as big as ponies, said Jan, and very like ponies.

They curvetted and capered about just as ponies do sometimes.
Truey thought that they looked more like lions! "Lions!" ejaculated her father and Hendrik, with an accent that betokened alarm.
Indeed, they reminded her of lions, Truey again affirmed, and Totty said the same.