. Our search for a wilderness; an account of two ornithological expeditions to Venezuela and to British Guiana. Natural history; Birds. lOO OUR SEARCH FOR A WILDERNESS. It is well that virtue is its own reward, as it has no other, for I was told the next morning by a husband who had had a perfectly good night's sleep â that I was a very foolish person indeed to sit up playing cards with those men, and that the loser could always stop: it was the winner who must not propose 4* <: â » Fig. 52. A Palm-sheath Rocking Toy. The negroes from the Pitch Lake always came down on Saturday nights
. Our search for a wilderness; an account of two ornithological expeditions to Venezuela and to British Guiana. Natural history; Birds. lOO OUR SEARCH FOR A WILDERNESS. It is well that virtue is its own reward, as it has no other, for I was told the next morning by a husband who had had a perfectly good night's sleep â that I was a very foolish person indeed to sit up playing cards with those men, and that the loser could always stop: it was the winner who must not propose 4* <: â » Fig. 52. A Palm-sheath Rocking Toy. The negroes from the Pitch Lake always came down on Saturday nights and serenaded us with wild Creole airs, and at the sound of the quaterns and violins huge hairy tarantulas would come forth from their hiding-places in our rooms and creep briskly here and there o\'cr walls and floor. We were greatly interested in this effect of the vibrations of sound, but we never bothered the great creatures in their strange " taren-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Beebe, Mary; Beebe, William, 1877-1962, joint author. London, Constable
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