Identifier: frankradcliffest1884daun (find matches)
Title: Frank Radcliffe; a story of travel and adventure in the forests of Venezuela
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Daunt, Achilles
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Publisher: London, New York, T. Nelson
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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an uninhabited wilderness, there existed anestate covered with fine pasturage, which seemed tous as if it had fallen from heaven, so grateful to oureyes was the sight of the green grass and the shrubsand trees, among which I observed some malvaceseand mimosse. This estate supported immense herds of cattle,which roamed half wild over the contiguous plain.A large number grazed near a neighbouring encamp-ment, where the herbage afforded a bountiful supplyof pasturage. We noticed that these animals wereattended by flocks of a kind of falcon which alighted^ fearlessly on their backs in search of the garrapatasor ticks that infested the skin. These birds arecalled garrapateros, from preying on the tiny para-sites. George looked at me with a self-satisfied ex-pression, indicating that a brilliant thought had sud-denly struck him. In answer to my remark on theeager industry with which the birds pursued theirfood, George said,— ^ o> HHrm > za Q> > V > -tm 3) o -n> rOO zw 3
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ENTERTAINED B Y NEGROES. V1 In spite of their industry, as you call it, they arecertainly thriftless birds. Dont you see that theyare always living upon tich ? Bah! replied I; how your thick wits havebeen sharpened by travel! I suppose you will nextobserve that the miserable destiny of these wretchedinsects causes each of them to regard himself as atich douloureux. Lauofhino; at these brilliant sallies, we made whathaste forward the jaded state of our horses permitted.As nioht beoan to fall, we saw lis^hts at some distance,and soon reached a sort of enclosure within whichseveral laro^e fires were blazino^. Round these a num-ber of negroes were cooking their supper. Our sud-den arrival startled them not a lititle; but when theyfound that we were not bandits, they hospitablyoffered us a share of their meal, which consistedof a coarse kind of bread, and meat roasted over thecoals. We unloaded the poor mules, which could scarcelystand, and suffered them and the horses to go insearch of wa

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