His face was turned upon the plain that stretched from the border of the _bosch_ as far as the eye could reach.
While quietly puffing away, his attention was attracted by some animals standing at a distance off upon the plain.

The brilliant colour of their bodies had caught his eye.
They were of a lively sienna colour over the back and sides, and white underneath, with a list of black upon the outside of the legs, and some black stripes upon the face, as regularly defined as if laid on by the brush of a painter.

They had horns of very irregular shape, roughly knotted--each curved into something of the shape of a reaping-hook, and rising directly from the top of one of the straightest and longest heads ever carried by an animal.

These animals were far from being gracefully formed.

They had drooping hind-quarters like the giraffe, though in a much less degree, shoulders greatly elevated, and long narrow heads.
For the rest their forms were bony and angular.