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inside of the wings, and that as these are flapped, 

 the bones strike the sides and wound them. I 

 have heard many people say, that when an ema 

 is caught after a hard chace, the sides are found 

 to be bloody. It is possible that this effect may 

 be produced by some cause similar to that by 

 which a pig cuts its own throat in swimming. 

 The eggs of the ema are large, and although 

 the food which they afford is coarse, it is not 

 unpalatable. The feathers are much esteemed. 

 When the dogs returned, we continued our 

 journey ; the road led us between high rocks, 

 and after proceeding along it for some time, the 

 dogs suddenly struck from the path, and went 

 up the side of a flat rock, which sloped down 

 towards the road, but was sufficiently low to 

 allow of a horse ascending it. Our horses 

 stopped and snuffed up the air. Julio cried out 

 at the same time " Water, water," and spurred 

 his horse to follow the dogs, and I did the same. 

 Julio was quite correct in what he had supposed, 

 from the direction which the dogs immediately 

 took, and from the stopping of the horses. 

 There was a long and narrow but deep cleft in 

 the rock, which was nearly full of water, clear 

 and cold. The sides of the cleft slanted inwards, 

 and the water was below the surface, so that 

 the dogs were running round and howling, with- 

 out being able to reach it ; the horses too, as 

 soon as we dismounted, and they saw the water, 



