IN SEARCH OF THE LAMMERGEYER. 



•297 



and speculating on our objects in coming. I overheard 

 the word mineral, and remembering that I had been 

 amusing myself in sifting some of the sands of the Majaceite, 

 thought it best to dispel any false impressions by inviting the 



DANCE AND GUITAR. 



bystanders to share a horacha of the rough wine of local 

 growth, and the usual cigarette. It is always best to have 

 some definite object, so I told my guests that I had come 

 to the sierra to shoot the quehvanta-liuesos, literally, 

 " bone- smasher." They stared and mumbled over the 



