PEEFACE. 



Some portions of the chapters on " Ostriches " and 

 " Bobby " have already appeared, in an abridged form, 

 in the Saturday Review. Part of the chapter on 

 " The Climate of the Karroo " has also appeared in the 

 St. James's Gazette. 



By the kind permission of the editors of both papers 

 I am now enabled to reprint these pages. 



A. M. 



