IN THE LAND OF THE BORA. 53 



centre of the salt-collecting industry, several of 

 the lagoons being arranged for the purpose. 



We found the new camp convenient enough, 

 though the road to the village was awful. The 

 only thing we had not was a spot to bathe, though 

 I did so once where the things had been landed. 

 This mattered little, for our hospitable resident 

 kindly placed his bathing-hut at our disposition. 

 Indeed, it was with the greatest difficulty we 

 could avoid being transported nolens volens into 

 his garden, tent and all. 



Our first day, as usual, was employed in 

 " settling in." I had every reason to congratu- 

 late myself on having found a spot for camp, for 

 I do not think it would be easy to find another. 

 Like most of the coast and island vineyards, the 

 land (!) consisted of parallel ridges of rock. When 

 in cultivation, every spot between these is occu- 

 pied by dwarf vines. All the movable stones 

 had been piled up in the manner I have before 

 described, partly in a great dike to seaward. This 

 was at once an advantage and the reverse. It 

 shut us off from the sea, but it added to our 

 privacy. Behind the tent again was another 

 great cairn. Fortunately for us, the rocks all 

 around were full of great cracks which would hold 

 a tent-peg, for there was no soil which would have 

 done so. Indeed, it was by the greatest luck we 

 found a spot where the centre iron went down 



