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EIGHTH DAY. 



LEAVING our cabins very early in the morning, we break- 

 fasted quickly, and then hastened to quit the vessel. Before 

 we got back last evening the Captain had been obliged to 

 vacate his moorings at the pier, where he was in the way of 

 the other Lloyd steamers, and to proceed a little distance up- 

 stream behind the village and there anchor. This was also 

 far pleasanter for us, as our surroundings were now much 

 quieter and less frequented by people. A gangway had been 

 constructed to facilitate communication between the shore 

 and the vessel, close to which was a meadow, from which we 

 had to walk a short distance along a footpath before getting 

 to the road near the outermost houses of the village, where 

 our traps were henceforth always to wait for us. 



To-day we set out at different times, every one doing just as 

 he felt disposed. My brother-in-law and I were the most 

 diligent of the party, so far as the noble chase was concerned, 

 for we left the steamer even far too soon, and had to walk 

 about the bank waiting for the carts, the excuse for their 

 lateness being the Greek festival of yesterday. It was a 

 splendid day, but even in the early morning the heat was 

 oppressive, and we thought with some misgivings of how it 

 would torment us in the noontide hours. 



Brehm and Homeyer intended to separate on this occasion, 

 and to pursue their researches in different directions. The 

 former had yesterday descried with his practised eye a fine 

 picturesque mass of rocks at the top of a wooded hill a long 

 way off. There he had observed a great many eagles and 

 vultures sunning themselves and .diligently preening their 



