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234 TEXAS NATURE OBSERVATIONS AND REMINISCENCES.
can be imagined for Indians to
live at; the immense rock pre-
cipices and caves and crevices hav-
ing offered shelter to the Indians as
well as the wild beasts-now also
more or less extinct. Near to
our camp lives an old experienced
trapper who has in 'late years
cleared these regions of all sorts of
wild animals as well as dangerous
reptiles, and he made some good
money by his trade-the prepared
skins of the wild eat, panther, fox,
opossum, civetcat, armadillo, coon,ands of them covered the immense
and and partly rotund cavern
and high precipices of the huge
rock walls, and the photograph
shows this elegantly, besides the
immense rock walls, caverns and
caves and and some of the outing
party sitting and standing inside
the arch of these huge rock
caverns and beneath the masses
of swallow nests. That was a tu-
multuous noise; a screeching.
whirling around, and intensely
fascinating sight to behold asI . .,-
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_;* I . , ."SAN ANTONIO TOURISTS AT MEDINA RIVER EMBANKMENTS, INSIDE AN IMMENSE CAVE-LIKE
ROCKY EXCAVATION-THE UPPER CURVED ROOF STUDDED WITH THOUSANDS OF THE
CLIFF-SWALLOWS' MUD NESTS; IN OLDEN DAYS THE HAUNTS OF LARGE WILD
BEASTS AND THE INDIAN; ABOUT 42 MILES NORTHWEST OF SAN ANTONIOA','
skunk, lobo wolf and coyote and
other jungle animals.
Some of these intensely attrac-
tive regions, besides wild animals,
owls, hawks, and serpents, are
the hosts of the interesting
cliffswallow alluded to in a separate
chapter of these reminescenees; and
never in my life have I come
across such masses of swallow
nests as seen also on the photo
illustration that was taken near
our camp. Hundreds and thous-we approached near and undet
the nests to prepare some views
of them-and the one in this
photo view only shows some
large masses, but not all of the
myriads of nests in the adjoining
excavations.
These swallow-made houses were
all well preserved-modern civiliza-
tion with some vandals not having
destroyed the nests as yet-asM
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Menger, R. Texas Nature Observations and Reminiscenses, book, 1913; San Antonio, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth143558/m1/238/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting University of Texas Health Science Center Libraries.