. Unexplored Spain. Hunting; Natural history. 2l8 Unexplored Spam some ten feet from wing to wing, and the tiny speck that this one, reduced by distance, appeared on the object-glass helped me to gauge what lay before us. A l^lack point that from camp I had mentally noted as a landmark proved to be a mass of dolomite seamed with inter- jected stria3 of glistening felspar, big as a village church ! I had demanded four hours, and precisely within that period. "THE WAY OF AN EAGLE liV THE AIR" (Lammeegeyer—Oypaetus harhatns) reached ni}^ celestial pinnacle. Bertram was beyond and higher
. Unexplored Spain. Hunting; Natural history. 2l8 Unexplored Spam some ten feet from wing to wing, and the tiny speck that this one, reduced by distance, appeared on the object-glass helped me to gauge what lay before us. A l^lack point that from camp I had mentally noted as a landmark proved to be a mass of dolomite seamed with inter- jected stria3 of glistening felspar, big as a village church ! I had demanded four hours, and precisely within that period. "THE WAY OF AN EAGLE liV THE AIR" (Lammeegeyer—Oypaetus harhatns) reached ni}^ celestial pinnacle. Bertram was beyond and higher still—where, I could not see. But my own post seemed to me as sublime as even an ibex-hunter could desire, at the culminating apex of the Spains and the centre of dispersal of four giant gorges each bristling with bewildering chaos of crags and rock-ruin, while above, to right and left, towered yet loftier riscos. At these serene altitudes life appeared non-existent. The last signs of a cryptogamic vegetation we had left below, and I could now see eagles or vultures soaring almost perpendicularly beneath and reduced by distance to moving specks. Yet shortly before reaching our posts, along one of those. 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 Chapman, Abel, 1851-1929; Buck, Walter John. joint author. London, E. Arnold
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