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engine-driver took no notice of our signals and 
shouts, but at last we succeeded in attracting his 
attention, and the train was shunted back to where 
the ostrich had fallen. We found it to be an 
exceptionally fine specimen, and had to exert all 
our strength to drag it on board the train. 
‘“, LUCKY SHOT BROUGHT DOWN THE HUGE BIRD.” 
Soon after this we reached Voi, about a hundred 
miles from the coast, and as this was the most 
important station on the line that we had yet come 
to, we made a short halt in order to inspect some 
construction work which was going on. On 
resuming our journey, we soon discovered that a 
pleasant change had occurred in the character of 
