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had suffered no apparent diminution in numbers. 

 When we had steamed round to the opposite side 

 of Borrera and a considerable distance away from 

 it, I witnessed one of tlie most curious sights it 

 lias ever been my good fortune to behold. 



A gleam of sunshine fell between two immense 

 j^innacles of rock, causing a great ray of bright 

 light to descend obliquely to the sea, very much 

 like a shaft of morning sunlight })enetrating an 

 empty room through a notch-liole in a closed shutter. 

 The Gannets returning to their nests, could be 

 plainly seen wheeling and dancing in this ray of 

 sunshine, like atoms of white dust. 



