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388 TRAVELS
the number fhe intended. She is defrauded of her eggs as before,
and continues repeating the fame procefs four or five times, when
the man, who has by this time gathered perhaps a {core of eggs
from the fame neft, fuffers her to lay the laft for the increafe of
her family. As foon as the eggs are hatched, the mother takes the
chicks gently in her bill, carries and lays them down at the foot
of the tree, where fhe teaches them the way to the river, in which
they inftantly {wim with an aftonifhing facility.
From Kardis to Kengis is a diftance of fifteen miles, which 1s
accomplifhed with great fatigue, on account of continued cataraéts
and the violent current of the river. Befides the danger of the
water-falls, we were much molefted by a fpecies of gnat, a cir-
eumftance which, in comparifon of what we were to experience
afterwards, perhaps does not deferye to be noticed in this place.
Our fervants began to murmur and complain of the excefs of
their hardfhips, of the extravagance of our travels: they thought
it extremely foolifh to fuffer and hazard fo much in a country
where one does not meet with any of the enjoyments of life, not
even with a bottle of wine, or fo much as an alehoufe: in fhort
they made us underitand that the country contained nothing in
the fmalleft degree interefting to them, and that their only wifh
was to return. We endeavoured to conduct ourfelves like good
officers; but though we fet them an example of perfect fobriety,
and fhared with them the fame bread and dried meat, as well as
the fame trouble and hardfhips, it was impoffible to recal them to
good humour; nor could they ever forget that they were ftill
about
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