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and we were thoroughly happy as we took our baths and 

 ate our hearty dinner. 



It was amusing to look at our three naturalists and 

 compare them with the conventional pictures of men of 

 science and learning especially men of science and learn- 

 ing in the wilderness drawn by the novelists a century 

 ago. Nowadays the field naturalist who is usually at all 

 points superior to the mere closet naturalist follows a pro- 

 fession as full of hazard and interest as that of the explorer 



Marabous and vultures. The undertakers 

 From a photograph by J. Alden Loring 



or of the big-game hunter in the remote wilderness. He 

 penetrates to all the out-of-the-way nooks and corners of 

 the earth; he is schooled to the performance of very hard 

 work, to the endurance of fatigue and hardship, to en- 

 countering all kinds of risks, and to grappling with every 

 conceivable emergency. In consequence he is exceedingly 

 competent, resourceful, and self-reliant, and the man of all 

 others to trust in a tight place. 



Around this camp there were no ravens or crows; but 

 multitudes of kites, almost as tame as sparrows, circled 

 among the tents, uttering their wailing cries, and lit on the 



