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a prayer for a safe ascent, and when the top is reached 

 anyone who is then ascending it for the first time is sohcited 

 to deposit a small coin in the cairn there. These rites 

 completed, the men fall to slaying the young Gannets, which 



GANNETS BEING DRIVEN. 



[B. Gurney, 



offer no resistance, with heavy clubs. On this occasion 

 562 young Gannets were j)rocured, viz. : — 

 440 on Sulusker. 



60 on Geldingasker. 



62 on Brandten (Brandt), 

 all three adjoining islands ; and Mr. Gurney obtained a 



