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were suspicious and we saw them no more. Just as all 
hope was abandoned, consolation came, for we “jumped ” 
a reedbuck ram ; at ioo yards he stopped to look back— 
like Lot’s wife—and got a ball in the heart—horns 12 
inches by 4! inches in basal circumference. The diary 
recorded :—“This is no ‘Common reedbuck ; ” and it isn’t 
—full details later. 
Once when busy on a stalk, I had instructed my 
“boys” to remain behind. On rejoining, they brought 
handfuls of ostrich-plumes and declared that a lion had 
killed the “ Narm." On going to the spot a lot of 
feathers lay scattered around, together with the legs, 
head, and part neck of a hen ostrich. Whether lions 
do kill ostriches, or what had killed this one, remained 
unproven. 
To this Mr Willoughby Lowe adds:—“Lions do 
great damage to ostrich-farms, so it is more than 
probable they will kill wild ostriches, especially when 
nesting. Captain Lambert, who was my companion in 
British East Africa and Uganda, told me lions had 
killed his brother’s entire stock of ostriches in one night, 
forcing their way through a strong barbed wire fence.” 
