. Encyclopedia of natural and artificial wonders and curiosities including a full and authentic description of remarkable and astonishing places, beings, animals, customs, experiments, phenomena, etc., of both ancient and modern times, in all parts of the globe : comprising correct accounts of the most wonderful freaks of nature and arts of man . THE OSTRICH. 231 in the Papuan islands, where it is caught by the natives oftenby the hand, and exenterated and seared with a hot iron inthe inside, and then put into the hollow of a bamboo, tosecure its plumage from injury. The following account of t
. Encyclopedia of natural and artificial wonders and curiosities including a full and authentic description of remarkable and astonishing places, beings, animals, customs, experiments, phenomena, etc., of both ancient and modern times, in all parts of the globe : comprising correct accounts of the most wonderful freaks of nature and arts of man . THE OSTRICH. 231 in the Papuan islands, where it is caught by the natives oftenby the hand, and exenterated and seared with a hot iron inthe inside, and then put into the hollow of a bamboo, tosecure its plumage from injury. The following account of the curiosities of The Os-trich, is taken from Lichtensteins Travels in South Africa,vol. II.— The habits of the ostrich are so remarkable, andhave been so imperfectly described by travellers in general,that I cannot forbear bringing together here all the knowledgeT acquired upon the subject, both in this and subsequent jour-neys. I have noticed, on a former occasion, a large flock ofostriches, which we met in the neighbourhood of Kombers:.In that country, the drought and heat sometimes compelthese gigantic birds to leave the plains, an-d then they pursuetheir course together in large flocks to the heights, where theyfind themselves more commodiously lodged. At the time ofsitting;, there are seldom more than four or five seen together,of
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