yo THE NATURAL HISFORY 
‘There are fome people in Africa who might-be - 
called Oftrich eaters, for they live almoft entirely 
upon Oftriches.. 
_. Heliogabalus, Roba ey the brains 
| 7 600 Oftriches ferved up, in one entertainment. 
- The inhabitants of Lybia. and Numidia, that is 
to fay, of fome parts of Barbary, bring. up. — 
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Oftriches tame. ‘I hey, fell their feathers and - 
os feed upon their fleth. | 
It is faid, that one Oftrich’s segg 1S fufficient for. ; 
one meal for. eight men: with the thell, cups are 
~ frequently made,. which in time grow hard, and | 
are very much like i iVOry. - 
_ When the Arabians have killed an . Oftrich oo | 
 eut his throat, and tie a tring very tightly re 
his neck juft below the hole; and then feveral. 
taking hold of it they fhake it about, juft as they: 
would fhak¢ about a.bottle in order to. wath it. - 
: Afterwards they ‘untie the fring, and a confi-- : 
derable quantity of a thick liquid comes out of — 
* the hole made in the throat ; it 1s about the con= 
fiftency of oil that is coagulated, that is beginning 
to freeze. This is a mixture of the blood and of — 
the fat of the Oftrich, and the Arabians are caeergg 
ford of it. 
|The Hihiopians thin Oftriches, and fell their 
| ikins to the Merchants of Alexandria, The loan 
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