At about fifty yards from the mouth of it we saw a small spring of water, at which we slaked the burning thirst that now consumed us.

Not far from the spring we discovered several of the filbert-bushes which I mentioned before.

Upon tasting the nuts we found them palatable, and very nearly resembling in flavour the common English filbert.

We collected our hats full immediately, deposited them within the ravine, and returned for more.
While we were busily employed in gathering these, a rustling in the bushes alarmed us, and we were upon the point of stealing back to our covert, when a large black bird of the bittern species strugglingly and slowly arose above the shrubs.

I was so much startled that I could do nothing, but Peters had sufficient presence of mind to run up to it before it could make its escape, and seize it by the neck.