It is not to be wondered at that they should exhibit agitations of body when the mind is affected, as they are quite unaccustomed to restrain their feelings.

But that the hardened beings should be moved mentally at all is wonderful indeed.

If you saw them in their savage state you would feel the force of this more....

_N.B._--I have got for Professor Owen specimens of the incubated ostrich in abundance, and am waiting for an opportunity to transmit the box to the college.

I tried to keep for you some of the fine birds of the interior, but the weather was so horribly hot they were putrid in a few hours.
When he returned to Kuruman in June, 1842, he found that no instructions had as yet come from the Directors as to his permanent quarters.