. Wild Spain ... records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun, natural history and exploration . breathe the spirit of wild Spain, and are full of fasci-nation to a 384 WILD SPAIN. CHAPTEK IN THE WILDERNESS. II.—A Dry Season (Flight-Shooting), For days the report had reached us of the myriads ofaquatic birds that had settled in the marisma. Thekeepers at the distant Eetuerta had passed the word alongto those nearer the boundary, and from these the newswas transmitted by boatmen to our factotum at San day the exhortation to come became more and moreurgent
. Wild Spain ... records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun, natural history and exploration . breathe the spirit of wild Spain, and are full of fasci-nation to a 384 WILD SPAIN. CHAPTEK IN THE WILDERNESS. II.—A Dry Season (Flight-Shooting), For days the report had reached us of the myriads ofaquatic birds that had settled in the marisma. Thekeepers at the distant Eetuerta had passed the word alongto those nearer the boundary, and from these the newswas transmitted by boatmen to our factotum at San day the exhortation to come became more and moreurgent—come at once, or in a few days the geese willhave devoured every blade of aquatic weed, every greenthing that remains, and will perforce be obliged to shiftto other quarters. But come we could not. The 29thNovember was the day previously fixed for opening thecampaign, and to cross the Guadalquivir before that datewas not possible. Some of our party were coming outby P. and 0. to Gibraltar, others by the quicker route ofthe Slid express. With that malignant perversity of fatethat ever seems to snatch from us the realization of onesideal, we had, this year, fixed t
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