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small bulbs, berries, and grass seeds ; never, I think, 

 upon insects. 



Its colour is about that of the woodcock, but 

 paler and brighter. The lower mandible is white, 

 the upper blue, the eye a pale yellow, with a 

 dark-brown iris. 



Let not the trout or salmon fisherman visiting 

 this land neglect to procure a skin or two of this 

 species, for from its hackles and wing can be tied 

 the deadliest summer fly for the former, whilst it 

 is a most valuable addition to those destined to 

 allure the prey of the latter. 



Some Bakalihari, who looked as if they had been 

 upon very short commons indeed, although they had 

 just had their immediate wants satisfied by our folks, as 

 a natural result became communicative, and informed 

 my friend that, as they crossed from their kraal, they 

 had seen ostriches a few miles to the westward. This 

 was big enough game in all conscience to excite 

 his passion for the slaughter of something large, 

 so "the gray," alias "the old moke" (one of the 

 best hunting horses a man ever laid a leg over, 

 and purchased by me for a song out of a trap 

 at the diamond fields), was ordered to be saddled 



