IN SEARCH OF THE LAMMERGEYER. 



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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 (ID1TAR. 



bystanders to share a boracha 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 quebfanta-huesos, literally, 

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



