10 On the Guadalquiver . 



diately stops also, and puts his head down as though he 

 were feeding. There is nothing for him to eat except dry 

 caked mud, but the birds do not know that, and seeing 

 him quietly feeding, they take no more notice of him than 

 of the thousands of half-wild horses and bulls which 

 inhabit the marismas. Your yatero arranges the halter, 

 studies the wind and the situation of the birds, and then 

 the stalk begins in earnest. 



Fig. 4. — Turning the Horse. 



The Tpatero has the halter in one hand and his gun in 

 the other. With his body bent, so that nothing appears 

 above the horse's back, he walks slowly and carefully 

 along, keeping close to its shoulders. He guides his beast 

 by means of the halter and his elbow, the latter being 

 kept pressed into the horse's ribs (Fig. 1), Now and 

 again he takes a look at the birds from under the neck 

 of his cahestro. You follow exactly in his footsteps, 



