194 ADVENTURES OF A YOUNG NATURALIST. 



this bird, carefully saved, was used for frying our fish. The latter, 

 I must confess, did not seem to us so nice as the dark-coloured 

 meat of the anhinga. If it tasted rather fishy, the fish them- 

 selves tasted muddy ; on the whole, however, our bill-of-fare was 

 a tolerable one. 



When night-fall came on, the trees stood out in bold relief 

 against the transparent sky, and I'Encuerado, delighted at think- 

 ing that he was now unbewitched, gratified us with one of his 

 unpublished canticles, which materially helped to send us to 

 sleep. 



