LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



I. Troop of Ostriches and Cart, with Prickly- 



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



H. 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 ............ 



V. Ostriches in a Hot Wind ......... 80 



VI. Ostrich-chicks ........ IO 4 



VII. i. Ostrich-chick (Photographed from case in 



Stanley and African Exhibition) 

 2. Ostriches meditating Escape through de- 



fective fence 1 5 



VIII. A Meerkat 







