Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

1096.] ~ATUUAL J-hRTORY. 189
turke)'S in the shrub~, I have entit·Ply forgotten the stinging
trPe until warned of it.'l clo~e proximity by its smell, and have
often fonntl myself in a little f01·est of them. I was only once
stun;, and that vet·y lightly. Its effects are curious; it leaves
no mark, bnt the pain is maddening; and for months afterwaJ"f that «h·eamy haze known only to the
waters of Puget ~onnd waK bt-iug diKKipatRd by tho f;un's raya~, a
(P.W eady sightsee!'!! from alll'oatl, while Ktrolliug about the ocean
doelts wet ·t~ treatetl tn a tuost iutt•J•estiug and uncommon sight.
It was no les!l than a flight nf flamingneR. thm;e timid an«l delitmte
hircls from the bayous aUtl moJ'IlK!Ies of the sunny climes
far to the sonth of us.
Legends of the Siwash tell us that, upon rare occasions, a few
hirtls of great beauty of plumage :nul form appear here, build
tht>ir nests, 1·ear their young, utter tllt'it· plaintive cries, and in
the eady fall disappear towards the o;onth. Their stHry is that
the hit·«me again during the life of the Indian who
11aw them, a111l that, wllt'n they do appear, it it~ only for one
Knmmer. And so it has lwen for counties~ ages, and the legend
tells 1111 it will he so fot• all time to come.
The de!ICJ·iption handed down from generation to generation
talli£>!1 exactly with the flamingo, and 110 we mu~t believe that
those WA Raw nl'e identit~ al with the birds of the legend, and
the hst.l'l>ingPJ'S of goucl times an1l prosperity, for, aay the
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