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rest there for a few days, but, if the weather be 

 fair, the Golden Plover will disdain to stop at all, 

 and will wing his way from Nova Scotia to South 

 America without a single halt. 



"The Golden Plover of the Pacific Ocean has no 

 opportunity of choice. There is no land on which 

 he can rest his weary wings, no matter how 

 tempestuous the elements. Once he leaves the 

 Alaskan coast or the Aleutian Islands, there is not 

 a spot of land, not even an isolated rock, until he 

 reaches the small group of islets in midocean, 

 known as the Hawaiian Islands. 



''When you consider with how much difficulty 

 the most experienced navigator, possessing chart, 

 compass, chronometer and instruments of the 

 greatest precision finds his way, it is all but incred- 

 ible how the Golden Plover of the Pacific flies like 

 a celestial arrow on his flight of over two thousand 

 miles. The deviation of a small degree of angle 

 at the start or the misjudgment of the amount of 

 leeway caused by adverse winds, would infallibly 

 cause him to miss so small a point in the vastness 

 of ocean unless some inner aeronautical sense 

 guided him. 



"No matter whether the wind be from east or 

 west, no matter what may be the currents of air, 



