MopERN CLIFF-DWELLERS 
Pinnacle, that stood about a hundred yards off, with 
shallow water intervening. ‘Then we undertook to 
scale the cliff. Kittiwakes had nests here and there 
on the sides, a few of them within reach by a little 
climbing. Fortunately there were ledges and pro- 
jections, mot) far-apart. We let -young Bourque 
climb up first, using my shoulders for a ladder, and 
had him pull us 
Ups Dts: we 
Geacmed \ledge 
after ledge, until 
we were safely 
landed on the top. 
This we found to 
consist of bare flat 
rock, which was 
covered with nests 
of the Gannets 
about a yard apart ‘‘T SELECTED ONE OF THE [GANNETS ] NESTS TO 
all over the area PHOTOGRAPH, A GOOD LARGE ONE WITH 
: AN EGG IN IT AND A SIZABLE FISH 
ghey, Wie lic piles LAID UP ON THE EDGE’”’ 
of sea-weed, more 
or less bulky, and most of them were empty. 
Later in the day we learned the cause. 
I selected one of the nests to photograph, a good 
large one with an egg in it and a sizable fish laid 
uponethescdecitor future: use. Just then the 
Keeper called out, from below—*“< Gentlemen, we 
must leave; there’s a squall coming!’ Looking 
toward the west and north, I saw a threatening 
haze and an evident line of wind, shown by a 
whitened sea. I hurried so that I spoiled one plate, 
but I got the nest taken, and then, without stopping 
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