. Pictures of bird life : on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh . sportsman,witii the manners of a gentleman ; and I thoroughly enjoyedmy stay among them. Life in the marismas is enjoyable enough during theday, but the ardent ornithologist has to pay for his pleasureat night. Then the hosts of mosquitoes come forth in theirthousands and take their revenge. I have met mosquitoesin various parts of the world, and thought they were badenough in the W^est Indies and in Newfoundland, but neverhave I seen them in such numbers or of such bloodthirstyferocity. Towards the end of the time they were da
. Pictures of bird life : on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh . sportsman,witii the manners of a gentleman ; and I thoroughly enjoyedmy stay among them. Life in the marismas is enjoyable enough during theday, but the ardent ornithologist has to pay for his pleasureat night. Then the hosts of mosquitoes come forth in theirthousands and take their revenge. I have met mosquitoesin various parts of the world, and thought they were badenough in the W^est Indies and in Newfoundland, but neverhave I seen them in such numbers or of such bloodthirstyferocity. Towards the end of the time they were daily,or rather nightly, getting worse, until the only way to getany sleep at all was to mufHe my head in a puggareesufficiently ])()rous to breathe through, and to draw my 330 Pictures of Bird Life stockings over my arms. That puzzled them, but the heatwas simply awful. The first necessary of life in this regionis mosquito-curtains, the second being perhaps a horse. Is not this the country where a man and a • horseman are synonymous—a land of • caballeros ?. Distant View of Flamingoes in the Marisma.
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