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it has been killed appeared strange to our Zanzibar 
Seedees. A rattan was passed, from an incision in 
the hock, to the stomach ; air was blown in, not witli 
a bellows as in France, but from the mouth, till the 
animal became distended. Where the air had not 
reached, a passage was made for it by striking the 
part, and the skin by this method was drawn off with 
greater facility. 
The bustard, or "cock of the woods," was occasionally 
marked down. On starting him he would get up with 
the usual hurried flight and noise, make a majestic sweep 
over the woods, and disappear in low ground, or, fold- 
ing his wings, alight on some cultivated spot. He is 
a noble bird, with rich game plumage, and nearly the 
size of a vulture. The other game-birds were chiefly 
quail and guinea-fowl, but our supply of shot being 
almost finished, we did not disturb them. Flocks of 
guinea-fowl were running in the fields three marches 
north of Faloro. I had never before seen them so 
numerous ; but they were wild, being killed by the 
inhabitants with bow and arrow. A few rooks, with 
peculiarly short tails, were now and then observed. 
They took swift cutting flights from tree to tree, call- 
ing like crows, and cleverly evading the darts made 
at them by kites. 
We left Faloro on the 11th of January 1863, our 
loads being carried by our remaining Seedees, twenty 
in number. We then travelled without the Turks for 
a few days to the north, and were joined by their 
headquarters on the 31st. In this interval we em- 
ployed the time in shooting over the desolate-look- 
ing undulations of grass jungle. Ehinoceros, buffalo, 
gnamsera, n soono, &c, were killed ; and elephant, 
