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lions kill sixty or seventy birds in a night. The 

 ostrich seems to tempt lions greatly. The beasts 

 will make their way through and over the most 

 complicated defences. Any ostrich farmer's life 

 is a constant warfare against them. Thus the 

 1 1 ills had slain sixty- eight lions in and near their 

 farm a tremendous record. Still the beasts con- 

 tinued to come in. My hosts showed me, with 

 considerable pride, their arrangements finally 

 evolved for night protection. 



The ostriches were confined in a series of heavy 

 corrals, segregating the birds of different ages. 

 Around the outside of this group of enclosures 

 ran a wide ring corral in which were confined the 

 numerous cattle ; and as an outer wall to this 

 were built the huts of the Wakamba village. 

 Thus to penetrate to the ostriches the enterpris- 

 ing lion would have to pass both the people, the 

 cattle, and the strong thorn and log structures 

 that contained them. 



This subject brings me to another set 

 of acquaintances we had already made the 

 dogs. 



These consisted of an Airedale named Ruby ; 

 two setters called Wayward and Girlie ; a heavy 

 black mongrel, Nero ; ditto brindle, Ben ; and a 

 smaller black and white ditto, Ranger. They 



