insect-impaling

Updated: May 5, 2025

Here the amount of green surface, and the number of birds, especially the blue-rock and the insect-impaling "butcher," whose nests were in the thin forest of thorn-trees, argue that water is not far off. The Ras Wady Surr is a charming halting-place. Our Arabs worked hard to gain another day.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - The Land of Midian — Volume 2