When several horsemen appear in a semicircle, it becomes confounded, and does not know which way to escape.

They generally prefer running against the wind; yet at the first start they expand their wings, and like a vessel make all sail.

On one fine hot day I saw several ostriches enter a bed of tall rushes, where they squatted concealed, till quite closely approached.

It is not generally known that ostriches readily take to the water.

Mr.
King informs me that at the Bay of San Blas, and at Port Valdes in Patagonia, he saw these birds swimming several times from island to island.