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the little valley. Francis, quietly amused, smiled as I tied 

 my handkerchief tenderfoot fashion to my gun; expressing 

 quite as much as a multitude of chaffing remarks could have 

 done. 



FIRST PHASE OF CURASSOW STRUTTING, .\ SLOW WALK \vrrn RAISKD TAIL. 

 FIG. 135. Rear view. Fir. i^o. Side view. 



Foot by foot I pushed through or crawled under fallen 

 trees and tangled vines and tree-ferns, r!<e to the hot steam- 

 ing forest mould, with the low distant booming becoming 

 ever n.ore distinct. The ventriloquial quality completely 

 deciivcd me, and long rfter I thought to see the performer I 

 went on and on for many yards. At last I turned to the 

 south to gain the shelter of a great fallen tree which had 



