Arizona republican., 1900-11-19
HUNTING THE GUAcHARo BIRD.

! We stood in an immense rocky dome about seventy feet in height, and a hundred and fifty wide at l.s widest pa-t. Its fiocr was covered with a bed of dry and spongy guano Of a puHgent CGor, strongly suggestive Of the Peru vihn product. NJ fewer than 200 Gua- charo birCs were wheeling and circling in the top Of the cavern close to the roof, or fitting Eois!l ssly, like huge l brown bats, within ten feet of our heads. Although they were thorough ly alarmed r-tt ors of the foolish crea- lures flew cut C'e the passage, wlithcr all might have es-aPcd in two minutes had th y Cnly knG'Yn it. The cave lit eraly swarmed With them and thsir peculiar grating cries blenC'sd into a peiS,>t tempest Cv5r k5lI. Outside LAe surf bcCmsd up acains'c the rocks. filling the cave with rev rberatiOns. Ir-iGe the sWeliS came rolling through the passage ard sw1Shing loudly up the pe5b!y beach, w!2.,e ,1 all t..s the qua chero birGi5 jCin-d their ceaseleas din, drowning oUT own voices so completely We could be heard only by shoLi,ing in each others cars.
 At first the darkness was so complete we were unable to shoot any cf the Eircs. In sheer help,ezsneas We began to search fer nasts and eggs to occupy the time while our eyes were becoming accustomed to the darkness.
 ] We soon found nests a-plenty, on a huge mass of fallen rock. which ,-n one side of the cavern formed a series of leIg5s thirty feet high. On climbing up we found the rocks covered to a depth of sevsral inches with loose guano, on which the nests lay like so many brown cheese5, firm seven to nine inches in diameter, and three to six inches high. : They are cC,rpos.d chiefly of undig5zst- ed fruit skins and seeds. We found be- tween seventy ard o-gh,y nests, and the number of GEES in each varief from one to four.
 i By the time We had collected 9 sltis- factory lot Of nests and eggs. our eyes Tad sto adjusted themselves t0 the place that We could dimly see the birds; that so!ll circlei about in the top Of the dome. With the first shot G1e cavern reared like 8 peal of thunler, but no Lird fell. It was like shooting ar: mid night in a forest. Mary a shot We fired | in vain. and frienl Ba-anta shouted cut his fear that the heavy and con- tinue1 reverblTaicEs would bring down rocks Cn us.
 At last we founI a way to bring down birds. The reflected fslu from the wa:c5 threw a broad but feeble blIm across the cave, and against the ,pF-z:te wall, well u2. We found that as the birCs flew lcrcz5 this beam We could see Them wcu enough to aim, To7 iT>f~ h,ip 6own.
 ] The next moment, 90 t seemed to us, E1ScItte cane running rp from the ! waters edge, arf siOL-od in our, ears: The -1 is r;S.ns. men! We must get ! out of tlis quick CT we VIII get caught. [ We stud ncr upon the ordlr of our going. Dead birds, ness and eggs and guns were hurriediy deposited in the t-ut and three Of Us tcok our places. The negroes floatcd the E1at and wad- eI E siCe it urt;l Basanta shouted New, them" When tl.ey leaped in and pulled hard fer Cayiisht.
 1 Half way oJls l,g roller met us, l,9,irg .t.,e rbca,t wH.i vicious jerk. | banged it's low 2gainct l.le rocky roof of the tunnel, and fillld it nearly half full Of water tzfo-e i, passed on. An Ot--SF Ike IL WOG4I SulSly SN'i4lLp uS- No wonder the negroes pulled hard and quick, and yelled.
 As We cleared the mouth of Ghe pas sage CUT rUG1e.' s -ltly' kissed the out CT edge Of a, numerous looking rock we h2i safely passed ever, bus which had been instantly laid bare by the on rushing wave. The water that raced and teamed off it's ragged top fairly hizsld wiuh taflef Tagc; and on both sides Of Us, les than an ores len5ih away, lay ccaer rocks like that.
 When We reached deep water, we lay on our ores, tliled cut the water, and Icount,d Uur trophies. w. hIl IS aiu,s huJs. ; young onyS, nests and 20 lg2z.
 Bu.i hcfJre and since th1t lime 1 'hava Len E,N 'ng in Eal pla 'cs, but
 never in another, wiIiioh Was So thor oEzr,.,y dangerous as that. It was l great day; anI in wnaleb0at manage
 me n5 Basanta and his two bodtmen
 were iganuina artists.-W. T. HJrnady-
 in Leslie's Popular Monthly.