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marsh was intersected with creeks, some shallow, otliers 

 much deeper, all of wliich had to be waded ; so tliat by 

 degrees we t^'ot wetter and wetter. ^^c had started 

 carryiiio- a pair of wadiiio-trousers ; })ut between two of 

 us it would have taken a week to have crossed tliat 



Nest of Avocet { Rcciirvirosfia avocetta). 



marsh dry, so we put them down half-way to be picked 

 up on our return, and from being wet up to oiu' knees 

 we were soon wading up to oiu' waists, off to the island 



we had come to investigate. 



The first island, a narrow strip about a hundred yards 

 long, as my friend tersely expressed it, " fairly stank of 



