Rie kele shit: 
OCEAN WANDERERS 
(Shearwaters, Skuas, Petreis, Phalaropes) 
I sHALL never forget the day on which began 
my intimacy with a class of birds of whose existence 
I had been hardly more than aware—birds that 
THE REALM OF THE OCEAN WANDERERS 
OFF EAST POINT, MAGDALEN ISLANDS, FAR FROM HUMAN HABITATION 
make the billows of ocean their home. It was the 
twelfth of July. The first gray of the morning 
found me, with a party of friends, scudding down 
the bay of Chatham, Mass., in a fishing sloop. A 
light south-west breeze and a racing tide swept us 
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