. Unsere Suche nach einer Wildnis; ein Bericht von zwei ornithologischen Expeditionen nach Venezuela und nach Britisch-Guayana . Ppose es waren Fische; und wir waren so rostrot-ful, dass verschont werden, dass wir fröhlich zu einem sloopdrapiert mit Streifen Fleisch, wie ein Haus ist mit Smilaxat Weihnachten festooned. Solange die Speisekammer niedrig war, wusste der Kapitän keinen Seelenfrieden aus Angst, dass seine Mannschaft uns und die Schlinge verlassen würde. So war der Kauf einer solchen Delikatesse wie Fleischwaren ein erfolgreiches Stück Strategie. Mit all ihren Fehlern gibt es unter den Venezolanern, wie unter den Mexikanern, eine gewisse Ritterlichkeit gegenüber Frauen; und
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. Our search for a wilderness; an account of two ornithological expeditions to Venezuela and to British Guiana . ppose it were fish; and we were so grate-ful to be spared that, that we cheerfully submitted to a sloopdraped with strips of meat, as a house is festooned with smilaxat Christmas. As long as the larder was low the Captain hadknown no peace of mind for fear his crew would desert usand the sloop. So the purchase of such a delicacy as meatwas a successful piece of strategy. With all their faults, there is among the Venezuelans, asamong the Mexicans, a certain chivalry toward women; andso I never felt the least alarm at being left alone on thesloop with the crew, while the Captain and my husband wentoff up the river. The great dusky Creole mate would put my 80 OUR SEARCH FOR A WILDERNESS. stool in a shady spot, and, figuratively, lay himself at my feetto serve me, and Maestro — even pugnacious Maestro —■would weave wonderful baskets for me of the roots of the man-grove; baskets in nests of twelve, each fitting snugly withinthe other and all gayly dyed with the Venezuelan colors, the. Fig. 43. Sunset in the Mangrove Wilderness. pigments being extracted from the leaves or stems of unknownwild plants. The time passed all too quickly with each day spent on theGuarapiche river — a gleaming stage, with a selling of greentrees, brilliant flowers and fragrant orchids, and an ever-changing plot with ever-changing actors. Of them all, manwas the least important. There were populous villages of A WOMANS EXPERIENCES IN VENEZUELA. 81 Hoatzins and great wandering tribes of Scarlet Ibises andPlovers; Herons, much occupied with their unsocial andtaciturn calling as fishermen, stood silent and solitary insecluded pools. With all this wild life the river teemed. Itwas only with the rising and falling of the tide that manentered upon the scene; and so quietly, so much a part of Fig. 44. TriE Silent Savages. nature, that one hardly felt any difference between him andthe