THE SUBMERGED JENTH 
of the lake, shoulder deep. Then, after walking 
a mile along the shore of the Jake, clad in a suit of 
underwear for protection against an abounding 
poisonous water-plant, I forced my way in through 
the thicket of canes. About a hundred yards from 
thesshore: il yentered “the suburbs “of the city in- 
habited by the Western Grebe—a great loon-like 
ONE OF THE MANY NESTS OF THE WESTERN GREBE 
creature, the largest species of the order—and the 
Eared Grebe. In the shadow of the tall canes I 
seemed to be in some sort of a submerged tropical 
forest. The leaves of the canes were thicker 
towards the top, while lower down the stems were 
bare, like miniature palm-trunks, through which 
one could see only for a few feet. In this shady 
retreat, floating between the stems, were the nests of 
the Grebes, on the average about two yards apart. 
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