The hide is manufactured into harness and straps of different sorts; and the long silky tail is an article of commerce.
Around every frontier farm-house large piles of gnoo and springbok horns may be seen--the remains of animals that have been captured in the chase.
"Jaging de wildebeest" (hunting the gnoo) is a favourite pastime of the young boors.

Large herds of these animals are sometimes driven into valleys, where they are hemmed in, and shot down at will.

They can also be lured within range, by exhibiting a red handkerchief or any piece of red cloth--to which colour they have a strong aversion.

They may be tamed and domesticated easily enough; but they are not favourite pets with the farmer, who dreads their communicating to his cattle a fatal skin-disease to which the gnoos are subject, and which carries off thousands of them every year.
Of course Von Bloom and his companions did not stay to talk over these points.

They were too anxious about the fate of the missing Hans, to think of anything else.
They were about to start out in search of him, when just at that moment my gentleman was seen coming around the end of the lake, trudging very slowly along, under the weight of some large and heavy object, that he carried upon his shoulders.
A shout of joy was raised, and in a few moments Hans stood in their midst..