I am ignorant of how things are done in Africa, but wouldn't it have been helpful to gut it first. [/quote]
The eat a lot of the guts. I've eatten with the blacks in their camps several times and it's not bad. Hey, food is food.
In the Northern Transvaal/Limpopo, at least where I've hunted a bunch, the hooves were used for muti ... local pagan stuff.
And they make the eland dick into a whip-thingie. Impressive whang.
God Bless,
Steve