They even go so far as to poison the fountains that the birds generally drink from.

But we were obliged to fire at them during flight, which gave us few chances to bring them down; and, indeed, we vainly exhausted one half our ammunition.
About eleven o'clock in the morning, the first range of mountains that form the centre of the island was traversed, and we had killed nothing.
Hunger drove us on.

The hunters had relied on the products of the chase, and they were wrong.

Happily Conseil, to his great surprise, made a double shot and secured breakfast.

He brought down a white pigeon and a wood-pigeon, which, cleverly plucked and suspended from a skewer, was roasted before a red fire of dead wood.