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ILLUSTRATIONS 



Strange creatures with gnome-like faces 



For they have become laden with eggs* 



In the interior the crabs had piled up white mounds of loose sand 



The sun rose on an empty stretch of lake 



A streaming line of flamingos flew across the great lake 



Mary Darling — a self-sufficient woman 



Only a few flamingos remained 



A pair of newly constructed nests containing two chalky white 



Row upon row of gaunt yellow coral trees swept into the dis- 

 tance 



Beside a great cluster of coral a school of yellow snappers swept 

 by 



A barnacle's legs — transformed into living seines 



On the slopes of the underwater hillside grew feathery mosses 



The modern and the ancient. A jaw full of shark teeth 



The half -beaks — silvery creatures of the dark 



