Lady Brassey describes the people, the bathing where
the sharks were plentiful, and the masses of wild
geranium, h^^drangea, and fuchsia. They climb to
the top of the lava Peak of Tenerifle, over twelve
thousand feet high ; they rise at five o'clock to see
the beautiful sunrises ; thev watch the slaves at
coffee-raising at Rio de Janeiro, in South America,
and Lady Brassey is attracted toward the nineteen
tiny babies by the side of their mothers ; " the



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youngest, a dear, little woolly-headed thing, as black
as jet, and only three weeks old."

In Belgrano, she says : '' We saw for the first time
the holes of the bizcachas, or prairie-dogs, outside
which the little prairie-owls keep guard. There
appeared to be always one, and generally two, of
these birds, standing like sentinels, at the entrance
to each hole, with their wise-looking heads on one side,
pictures of prudence and watchfulness. The bird
and the beast are great friends, and are seldom to be
found apart." And then Lady Brassey, who under-
stands photography as well as how to write several
languages, photographs this pretty scene of prairie-
dogs guarded by owls, and puts it in her book.
