1838. W. C. Harris, Narr. Exped. S. Africa, 380. Catoblepas Gnoo. The Gnoo. Wilde Beest of the Cape Colonists.
1850. R. G. Cumming, Hunter’s Life S. Afr., iv. 84. Having inspected the wildebeest bull, which was a noble specimen.
1889. Rider Haggard, Allan’s Wife, iii. Here to the right might be a herd of vilderbeeste that could not number less than two thousand.
1895. J. G. Millais, Breath from Veldt, x. 218. The white-tailed gnu or black wildebeest.
