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this folly taken advantage of when he was feeding quietly in a valley open 
at both ends. A number of men would commence running, as if to cut 
off his retreat from the end through which the wind came; and although 
he had the whole country hundreds of miles before him by going to the 
other end, on he madly rushed to get past the men, and so was speared. 
He never swerves from the course he once adopts, but only increases 
his speed. 
OSTRICH HUNTING IN THE DESERT. 
“When the ostrich feeds, his pace is from twenty to twenty-two 
inches; when walking, but not feeding, it is twenty-six inches; and when 
terrified, as in the case noticed, it is from eleven and a half to thirteen 
and even fourteen feet in length. Only in one case was I at all satisfied 
of being able to count the rate of speed by a stop-watch, and if I am not 
mistaken, there were thirty in ten seconds; generally one’s eye can no 
more follow the legs than it can the spokes of a carriage-wheel in rapid 
motion. If we take the above number, and twelve feet stride as the aver¬ 
age pace, we have a speed of twenty-six miles an hour. It cannot be very 
