LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



I. — Troop of Ostriches and Cart, with Prickly- 

 Pear Leaves for food ... ... ... Frontispiece, 



II. — I. Jacob. 2. Toto Facing page 26 



III. — Some of the best kinds of Ostrich-bush : — 



I. Brack-bosch. 2. Ghanna. 3. Fei-bosch. ^ 48 



IV. — Our Sitting-room ... , „ 66 



v.— Ostriches in a Hot Wind „ 80 



VI. — Ostrich-chicks „ 104 



VII. — I. Ostrich-chick (Photographed from case in 

 Stanley and African Exhibition) — 



2. Ostriches meditating Escape through de- 

 fective fence ,, 150 



VIII.— A Meerkat „ 15S 



