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AN OSTRICH FARM AT MACHAKOS 



the years to a pleasing variation of shade, of jungle, 

 of open glade, of flowered vista; and he goes away 

 full of expert admiration for "X.'s bully garden." 

 With this solid training beneath me I was able on 

 this occasion to please immensely. 



From the house site we descended the slope to 

 where the ostriches and the cattle and the people 

 were in the last sunlight swarming upward from the 

 plains pastures below. These people were to the 

 most extent Wakamba, quite savage, but attracted 

 here by the justness and fair dealing of the Hills. 

 Some of them farmed on shares with the Hills, the 

 white men furnishing the land and seed, and the 

 black men the labour; some of them laboured on 

 wage; some few herded cattle or ostriches; some 

 were hunters, and took the field only when, as now, 

 serious business was afoot. They had their complete 

 villages, with priests, witch doctors, and all; and they 

 seemed both contented and fond of the two white 

 men. 



I As we walked about we learned much of the 

 istrich business; and in the course of our ten days' 

 isit we came to a better realization of how much 

 here is to think of in what appears basically so 

 imple a proposition. 

 In the nesting time, then, the Hills went out over 

 che open country, sometimes for days at a time, 



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