Big Game Shooting 



when used as dubbin, or for the outside of guns 

 and rifles, when one has run short of vaseline, 

 or whatever one's peculiar grease may be. This 

 is rather well worth knowing. 



They are found on almost any plain, open 

 or bushy, from Kilimanjaro right up to North- 

 ern Somaliland, and extend south as well, of 

 course. 



They may be seen in herds (one would hardly 

 call them flocks) of from three to eight ; fourteen 

 I saw together the other day, and later still, under 

 Kilimanjaro, I saw thirty-seven, all cocks, in 

 single file, trekking hard across the plains like 

 a train. I just saw a long row of heads over a 

 rise, and then they all came into view. It was 

 a very pretty and curious sight. 



They have usually started running before one 

 has spotted them. If one meets an ostrich at 

 one hundred and fifty yards or so, stand still and 

 let drive on the spot. It ought to be a " picnic " ; 

 and being as astonished as oneself, they may just 

 stand for the single shot. 



They leave their nests half covered over with 

 sand, and the sun helps to hatch the eggs. A 

 single nest may have from ten to fourteen eggs 

 in it. The eggs are very good. I remember, 

 when wounded in Somaliland, one egg serving 

 its turn three mornings running for omelets, and 

 going down quite well. 



On another occasion there I caught three 



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