Crossword-Solution: GUINEAFOWL 10 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

Next morning, having breakfasted off cold guineafowl, we mounted, crossed the river by a ford that was quite as deep as I liked, to which the Kaffir path led us, and, leaving Footsack with the two other boys in charge of the wagon, began to hunt for the buffalo in the rather swampy bush that stretched from the further bank to the slope of the first hills, eight or ten miles away.

There were springs on this tableland that formed little pools of water, at which the partridges, also occasionally guineafowl and bush pheasants, came to drink at sunrise and sunset.

The country is full of many excellent sporting birds: guineafowl, quail, francolin, duck, geese, and several kinds of partridge and bustard; but though a few farmers shot wildfowl on their dams, the average Boer was a poor shot with a gun, and when he did use one he liked to take his birds sitting.

There was great display, and Goncourt tells us that the _menu_ included _potage au blé vert_, reindeers' tongues, mullet _à la Provençale_, and truffled guineafowl.[46] But Zola was still out of sorts.