There was a wonderful profusion of antelopes,-thirty-one species have been enumerated,-including such noble animals as the eland and koodoo, such beautiful ones as the springbok and klipspringer, such fierce ones as the blue wildebeest or gnu.
"Impressions of South Africa"
James Bryce
The gnoos that had been seen were the common kind called by the Dutch colonists "wildebeests" or wild-oxen, and by the Hottentots "gnoo" or "gnu," from a hollow moaning sound to which these creatures sometimes give utterance, and which is represented by the word "gnoo-o-oo."
"Popular Adventure Tales"
Mayne Reid
They had not far to go, game of all kinds being abundant in that region, but instead of finding a buffalo or gnu, they discovered a lioness in a bed of rushes.
"The Settler and the Savage"
R.M. Ballantyne