... evensuspected of charlatanism, of sensationalism, of turning his attention toany phenomena not strictly within the proper pale of scientific investiga-tion, that man is doomed to ridicule; his profession ... hisdisapproval of me on the lagoon.Miss Barrison produced three bowls full of boiling water and droppedthree pellets of concentrated soup-meat into them, while I prepared cof-fee. And in ... fox-squirrel, the whistle of the raccoon, ducks softly quacking or whimper-ing as they prepared for sleep among the reeds, the soft booming of bit-terns, the clattering gossip of the heronry, the Southern...