ocr: At least there wouldn't - - be any whisky this time because we'd drunk it all, - SO we would be leaving Codtish the following day clear-headed enough to know that we had flown twelve thousand miles to see a bird that hadn't turned up to see us, and all - that remained was to - fly twelve thousand miles back again and tryt to find something to write about it. I must have done sillier things in my life, but couldn't remember when.