LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



I. — Troop of Ostriches and Cart, with Prickly- 

 Pear Leaves for food Frontispiece. 



II. — I. Jacob. 2. Toto Facing fage 26 



III. — Some of the best kinds of Ostrich-bush: — 



1. Brack-bosch. 2. Ghanna. 3. Fei-bosch. „ 48 



IV, — Our Sitting-room „ 66 



v.— Ostriches in a Hot Wind „ 80 



VI.— Ostrich-chicks „ 104 



VII. — I. Ostrich-chick (Photographed from case in 

 Stanley and African Exhibition) — 



2. Ostriches meditating Escape through de- 

 fective fence „ 150 



VIII.— A Meerkat „ 158 



