yo THE NATURAL HISTORY 
‘There are fome people in Africa who might-be 
called Oftrich eaters, for they live almoft entirely . 
upon Oftriches. A 
Heliogabalus, a Roman Emperor, had the brains. 
7 of 600 Oftriches ferved up in one entertainment, ’ 
The inhabitants of Lybia and Numidia, that is 
to fay, of fome parts of Barbary, bring up 
Oftriches tame... ‘They fell their feathers and. 
feed upon their flefh.. 
It is faid, that one Oftrich’s egg is fufficient for _ 
one meal-for eight men: with the fhell, cups are 
frequently made, which in time grow hard, and. 
are very much like ivory. . 
- “When the Arabians have killed an “‘Offtrich they 
cut his throat, and tie. a ftring very tightly round 
his neck. juft below the hole; and then feveral. 
taking hold of it they fhake it about, juft as they, 
would fhake about a bottle inorder to wafhit.. 
. Afterwards they untie the ftring, and aconfi- | 
derable quantity of a thick liquid comes out of — 
the hole made in the throat; it is about the con~ | 
fiftency of oil that is coagulated, that is beginning. Re: 
to freeze. This is a mixture of the blood and of | 
the fat of the Oftrich, and the Arabians are wp | 
fond of it. 4 | 
The Aithiopians fkin Oftriches, and fel thelt | 
tkins to the Merchants of Alexandria, The leas 7 
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