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EIGHTH DAY. 
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Leavine our cabins very early in the morning, we break- 
fasted quickly, and then hastened to quit the vessel. Before 
we got back last evening the Captain had been obliged to 
vacate his moorings at the pier, where he was in the way of 
the other Lloyd steamers, and to proceed a little distance up- 
stream behind the village and there anchor. This was also 
far pleasanter for us, as our surroundings were now much 
quieter and less frequented by people. A gangway had been 
constructed to facilitate communication between the shore 
and the vessel, close to which was a meadow, from which we 
had to walk a short distance along a footpath before getting 
to the road near the outermost houses of the village, where 
our traps were henceforth always to wait for us. 
To-day we set out at different times, every one doing just as 
he felt disposed. My brother-in-law and I were the most 
diligent of the party, so far as the noble chase was concerned, 
for we left the steamer even far too soon, and had to walk 
about the bank waiting for the carts, the excuse for their 
lateness being the Greek festival of yesterday. It was a 
splendid day, but even in the early morning the heat was 
oppressive, and we thought with some misgivings of how it 
would torment us in the noontide hours. 
Brehm and Homeyer intended to separate on this occasion, 
and to pursue their researches in different directions. The 
former had yesterday descried with his practised eye a fine 
picturesque mass of rocks at the top of a wooded hill a long 
way off. There he had observed a great many eagles and 
vultures sunning themselves and diligently preening their 
