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of the flesh, as the writer once learned by experience, when 

 having had a slight sunstroke, he awoke to find a rural 

 medico in the act of applying the lancet to his arm. 



Before dawn we started for Jerez, and in a detached 

 crag of the sierra we obtained a fine adult male golden 

 eagle which had breakfasted early on a rabbit. Like most 

 Spanish examples, this eagle was much splashed witli white 

 below, especially on the thighs. Shortly after, on a bare 

 stretch of maize stubble, we rode fairly into a pack of little 

 bustard, and though the gun was in the slings a quick shot 

 secured three — one to the first barrel, and a brace, winged, 

 to the second. A long skein of cranes came gaggling over 

 as we breakfasted on the banks of Guadalete, and, passing 

 the Agredera, by evening the long ride was over, and we 

 were once more amidst the grateful comforts of Jerez de 

 la Frontera. Only for a brief period, however, did these 

 delay us, for on the following evening we set out on a 

 night expedition to the marisma. 



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