In three years they will furnish plumage worth from twenty-five to thirty dollars each year.

A Hottentot told Paul that many of the ostriches that then stood around in sight had been hatched by fat old Hottentot women who took two or three eggs away from the hens and lay with them in feather bed until they were hatched.

The truthfulness of this story, Paul never verified.
After passing Victoria they wended their way slowly through great plains covered with a stumpy herbage.

Here they saw large numbers of secretary birds and bustards and maramots and springbok antelope.
Several of the latter were shot and added greatly to the comfort of the mess.

Every few days they met the up or down carts, going or coming from the diamond regions.