Crossword-Solution: BLESBOKS 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 16

Where the saline incrustations did not cover the ground, there grew a short, sour herbage, browsed upon by _blesboks_, _wilde beests_, and several other species of antelopes.

There were some springboks and blesboks running on the place--remnants of those mighty herds of game which formerly blackened the Free State plains.

The springboks, when alarmed, take to flight and scatter off in any direction, whereas the bonteboks and blesboks invariably run against the wind, bearing their noses close along the ground, like hounds upon a trail! They are fleeter than springboks, and also more shy and wary, as though they knew that their spoils are more valuable to the hunter, and therefore required greater skill and speed to preserve them.

That is by no means a difficult thing with an animal that herds together in thousands, provided you chance to be in the district it inhabits; and the yagers were not slow in coming within view of a herd of blesboks.

But blesboks are not birds, although in less than an hour after they proved themselves to be almost as swift.