[48] Dampier, New Voyage round the World, 2nd ed., i. p. 71; London, 1699.
[49] Dampier’s visit to the Cape de Verde Islands took place in September, when, of course, flamingoes would not be nesting.
[50] We also observed in Equatoria a second species, smaller and red all over, Phoenicopterus minor. This, however, was far less numerous; the great bulk of East-African flamingoes were the common Ph. roseus.
[51] It is right to add that in America the growth of mangrove and other bushes, sometimes in close proximity to the nests, offers facilities to the photographer that are wholly wanting in Spain, where the flamingo only nests in perfectly open waters devoid of the slightest covert or means of concealment.
[52] Gaitero is the word used. The gaita is a musical instrument which we may translate as bagpipes.
[53] For notes on these subjects, we are indebted to Mr. Carl D. Williams.
[54] Boabdil, we read, was a keen hunter, and during his sojourn at Besmer frequently spent weeks at a time among the mountains with his hawks and hounds.
[55] La Alpujarra, by Don Pedro A. de Alarcón (4th edition, Madrid, 1903).
[56] Several of these animals, moreover, yield excellent fur.
[57] These mountains are believed to overlie vast store of subterranean wealth in the form of petroleum. Geologists seem agreed upon that; but they differ as to the precise locality of the treasure or whence it may most conveniently be exploited.