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bastard hartebeest en · NOUN
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The sassaby.
We saw a small herd of sassadybies, or bastard hartebeesten, and in getting a long shot at one of them I passed so close to a leopard or panther, that I might have killed it, had I seen it before it escaped.
1871 August 20, [Thomas] Baines, quotee, “Exploration. Exploration and Hunting in South Africa.”, in The Australasian, volume XII, number 323, Melbourne, Vic., published 8 June 1872, page 710, column 3:
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