It was no good, I could see nothing of him, and was about to give it up and start after some oryx I saw on the skyline, when suddenly at a distance of about three hundred yards from the ant-heap, and on its further side, I saw my rhino stand up in a patch of grass.
"Maiwa's Revenge The War of the Little Hand"
H. Rider Haggard
Among the Antelopes of the same part of the world is the oryx, or Gemsbok, a very beautiful animal, which has been supposed to give rise to the Unicorn of Sacred writings; "for its long, straight horns, always so exactly cover one another, when viewing them from a distance, that they look like one.
"Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals"
R. Lee
One morning while camped in the Jig-Jigga country, William Marlow, our Sahib's valet, was out with the pony men trailing a wounded oryx, while the Sahib himself was three miles away shooting eland.
"The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier"
Edgar Beecher Bronson