. The Canary Islands : their history, natural history and scenery : an account of an ornithologist's camping trips in the archipelago . ly lined with tamarisk a mile from the shore, a square white house,belonging to Don Pedro Manrique, is well placed ina grove of date-palms, and here we were invited bythe major-domo to pitch our tents. No one couldhave shown us more kindness, and a camel was atonce despatched to the shore to bring up our half-soaked belongings. It was already dark when thebeast had completed its fourth and last journey, andafter such an adventurous day we were gla
. The Canary Islands : their history, natural history and scenery : an account of an ornithologist's camping trips in the archipelago . ly lined with tamarisk a mile from the shore, a square white house,belonging to Don Pedro Manrique, is well placed ina grove of date-palms, and here we were invited bythe major-domo to pitch our tents. No one couldhave shown us more kindness, and a camel was atonce despatched to the shore to bring up our half-soaked belongings. It was already dark when thebeast had completed its fourth and last journey, andafter such an adventurous day we were glad to turn inas soon as the last tent had been pitched by the lightof the moon. We awoke, to the cooing of Turtle Doves, to findourselves in a most delightful camp. We had pitchedthe tents on an elevated piece of ground, in a groveof really fine palm-trees close to the Spanish the plateau, migratory Swallows were hawkingover a patch of maize, as they do in our corn-fieldsat home. A stream of water close at hand hadbeen diverted into a fast-running afequta, and every-thing looked green and flourishing. Orange-trees. La Pefia Ca
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