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hartebeest
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hartebeest
medium-sized antelope with long legs and lyre-shaped horns. Called also Alcelaphus caama, A. buselaphus.


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These include wildebeests, zebra; gazelles buffalo eland kongoni, and warthogs.
Although the narrator seems to live comfortably in a patriarchal world, his patriarchal values seem to be (1) undercut by his attentive focus on Mary as she hunts her lion, (2) affirmed by his mocking of this hunting (UK 338 et passim), and (3) more seriously undercut by a seemingly minor, puzzling, but obviously significant incident: Mary's sighting and one-shot killing of the kongoni (433-34), which strikes tremendous unease in the narrator's heart in the last chapter of the book.
As a side-show, they drilled a bore-hole for the local Kongoni maternity hospital, renovated a school at Faza Island in Lamu and repaired a foot-bridge.
 
 
 
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