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posed th^it we could scarcely get a shot. 

 I succeeded only in killing two chaverias/^, 

 or wild turkeys, two wild ducks, and some 

 small sandlings. I must say the place would 

 not tempt me to go again : perhaps a tre- 

 mendous thunder-storm, in which we were 

 caught, and completely drenched to the skin, 

 (there being no shelter whatever,) might have 

 given me this distaste for the place. After 

 enduring the pitiless pelting of the storm" 

 until we were as wet as if soaked in a river, 

 it ceased, and taking off our clothes, and 

 wringing them, we put them on again, and 

 continued our sport. 



In the evening we walked about the town, 

 which is a miserable place ; it is, however, 



* These birds are larger than the ordinary domestic 

 turkey, and stronger limbed ; they have a fine eye, and 

 handsome tuft of feathers on the top of the head, which is 

 erected or depressed at pleasure ; the neck purple, the bill 

 very hard and strong, the bird fat, and tolerably good eating* 

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