. Wild Spain ... records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun, natural history and exploration . Yet when helped to regain firmground, the camel walked quietly away, apparently but littlethe worse, and was soon browsing heartily on the tops ofsome young pine-trees. It is, perhaps, worth adding, in reference to the antipathyshown by horses towards camels, that when during thenight bands of the latter have occasionally strayed from themarismas to the vicinity of our shooting-lodge of Doiiana,at once a commotion has broken out in ths dtabl(5s, thoughplaced in an enclosed square. All at oiice the hor
. Wild Spain ... records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun, natural history and exploration . Yet when helped to regain firmground, the camel walked quietly away, apparently but littlethe worse, and was soon browsing heartily on the tops ofsome young pine-trees. It is, perhaps, worth adding, in reference to the antipathyshown by horses towards camels, that when during thenight bands of the latter have occasionally strayed from themarismas to the vicinity of our shooting-lodge of Doiiana,at once a commotion has broken out in ths dtabl(5s, thoughplaced in an enclosed square. All at oiice the horses batebegun shrieking, kicking, and displayingeverj^sign of feaavwhich could only be explained bj their detecting theeffluvia of some passing 102 WILD SPAIN. CHAPTER THE FLAMINGOES. KOTES ON THEIR HAUNTS AND HABITS, AND THE DISCOVERYOF THEIR INCUNABULA. Though Flamingoesare found in manj ofthe countries borderingon the Mediterranean,and their rosy Ijattahonsare famihar to Easterntravellers through Egyptand the Suez Canal, yettheir mode of nesting,and especially the man-ner in which birds of sosingular a form coulddispose of their extreme-ly long legs while incu-bating, has remained anunsettled question. Tillwithin the last decade,in default of more recentobservations, sundry an-cient fables have passed current. Dampier described thenests of flamingoes seen by him two hundred years ago—in September, 1683—on one of the Cape de Yerde Islands,as being high conical mounds of mud upon which thefemale sat astride (Voyages, i., pp. 70, 71) ; and for twocenturies this cavalier position has been accepted ashistoiy, no further observations having been made, though
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