. Wild Spain ... records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun, natural history and exploration . devoid of furniture or ofcontents beyond a pile of sacks containing corn, or paja (chaff), in one corner, and our own belongings, includingsaddles, mule-pack, &c., kc, which lay littered all overthe floor. Three trestle-beds ( catres ) were produced,and in deference to the idiosyncrasies of the , atiny wash-basin was placed on the window-sill—not thatthere was any ivindow, beyond a folding wooden consisted of an oUa, in which small morsels ofpork could be hunted up amidst the
. Wild Spain ... records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun, natural history and exploration . devoid of furniture or ofcontents beyond a pile of sacks containing corn, or paja (chaff), in one corner, and our own belongings, includingsaddles, mule-pack, &c., kc, which lay littered all overthe floor. Three trestle-beds ( catres ) were produced,and in deference to the idiosyncrasies of the , atiny wash-basin was placed on the window-sill—not thatthere was any ivindow, beyond a folding wooden consisted of an oUa, in which small morsels ofpork could be hunted up amidst the recesses of a steamingmass of fiarhanzos (chick-jDea), by no means bad, thoughwe were too hungry to be fastidious. A small crowd of idlers, as usual, hung about the opencourtyard of the posada, watching for any new thing, IN SEARCH OF THE LAMMERGEYER. •297 and speculating on our objects in coming. I overheardthe word mineral, and remembering that I had beenamusing myself in sifting some of the sands of the Majaceite,thought it best to dispel any false impressions by inviting the. DANCE AND GUITAR. bystanders to share a horacha of the rough wine of localgrowth, and the usual cigarette. It is always best to havesome definite object, so I told my guests that I had cometo the sierra to shoot the quehvanta-liuesos, literally, bone-smasher. They stared and mumbled over the 298 y>iLD SPAIN. name; had never heard of such a thing; the firstman one meets probably never has; but there was inthe village a goatherd, muy inteligcnte eii pajaros, whoknew all about birds. I sent for this worth}^ FranciscoGarcia de Conde by name, a light-built, wiry moun-taineer. Franciscos ornithological repute was easilyacquired, for among the blind a one-eyed man is king;but he certainly did know the Lammergejer, and hisdescription of its habits and appearance passed theevening away pleasantly enough. The quehra7ita-huesos hedescribed as a fierce and solitary bird—never seen morethan two together,
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