66 Idle Days in Patagonia. 
splash of the stone reached us he dashed in and 
against the rushes once more. After a violent 
struggle he succeeded in getting through them, and, 
finding himself in deep water, struck straight out, 
and then began swimming about in all directions, 
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Majov and the Flamingo, 
until, getting to windward of the bird, he followed 
up the scent and found it. This was the easiest 
part of the task, as the bird was very large, and 
when Major got back to the rushes with it, and I 
heard him crashing and floundering through, snort- 
