. Essays and photographs. Some birds of the Canary Islands and South Africa . u _i _cc =.• UJ g- z t o ^ I- = CO S 1- -w UJ z NEW QUARTERS 4I morning- found us ready to start home, with everythingpacked. Just as we were going- to load up a boy came tosay that he could show us an Enganas nest, aboutthree miles distant ; this was very annoying, as I hadquite made up my mind to leave, disgusted as I waswith our bad luck, but Don Ramon and his wife didall they could to persuade me to stay, while at last oldLorenzo, thoroughly homesick and tired of the placeas he must have been, struck a tragic
. Essays and photographs. Some birds of the Canary Islands and South Africa . u _i _cc =.• UJ g- z t o ^ I- = CO S 1- -w UJ z NEW QUARTERS 4I morning- found us ready to start home, with everythingpacked. Just as we were going- to load up a boy came tosay that he could show us an Enganas nest, aboutthree miles distant ; this was very annoying, as I hadquite made up my mind to leave, disgusted as I waswith our bad luck, but Don Ramon and his wife didall they could to persuade me to stay, while at last oldLorenzo, thoroughly homesick and tired of the placeas he must have been, struck a tragic attitude and saidQue lastima, ^V;}t?r (what a misfortune), to go backhavino- found nothings. Thus he turned the scale, so weset to and unpacked, turning out the remnants of pro-visions, some of which I had dispensed with a toolavish hand the day before. An hour and a halfs journey brought us to theplace where the nest was situated ; our youthful guide,dressed as were all the peasant boys, in white, trottingalong in front of us to show the way. He pulled upnear the centr
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