JEWELLED OSTRICH
DIAMONDS IN SHOT BIRD. Hunting for diamond-eating ostriches is the latest industry in South Africa. A native in the Kalahari Desert shot an ostrich with a bow and arrow, and found twenty rough gems in its gizzard. Ho sold Ins find for a fortune and set out, with other tribesmen, to track down other treasure-carrying birds Organised hunts have now been formed by men using modern rifles. One recent “prize” was an ostrich which yielded fifty-three valuable stones, while another killed had made a meal of seventeen gems. .
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Evening Star, Issue 20468, 26 April 1930, Page 21
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90JEWELLED OSTRICH Evening Star, Issue 20468, 26 April 1930, Page 21
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