ILLUSTRATIONS 



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 The Basilisk ... a hope fulfilled 

 In the center lay all that remained of a stout vessel 

 Shipwreck Camp 



Cacti — speaking mutely of a scanty existence 

 A long low line of green — with here and there a line of palms 

 The spiders had long since claimed this house 

 A lizard paused statuesquely in front of the door 

 Every hermit crab thinks its neighbor's shell is bigger and better 

 Nesophlox lyrura, the Inaguan hummingbird 

 The blossoms provided sweet nectar and microscopic insects 

 The surf — an area of bitter struggle 

 Sea urchins — the original scatterbrains 

 Sphaerodactylus — the smallest lizards in the world 

 The Anolis lizards — delicately colored creatures 

 The Chitons — the Fundamentalists of the surf world 

 Near the fringe of trees a few palms were making a brave stand 

 An Ameiva maynardii — a Hzard of the lee, a vivid reptile 

 The most gargoylish, demoniacal yet human-like face 



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A place where the ceiling had fallen away, admitting sunlight 

 On the very edge of the sea the nighthawk deposited its single t^^ 



