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they crossed over easily enough, finding 
themselves in Africa. Here it was more 
burnt up even than it had been in Spain, 
and the people they saw were blacker, 
and there were more palm-trees, and 
more insects. More birds also were met; 
for here they found, to their surprise, 
ever so many birds that they had seen and 
known in English fields and hedges. 
All the nightingales, and willow-wrens, 
and warblers, and the host of summer 
birds had also made the same journey 
as they had themselves. Swallows and 
martins were rushing past them, wheel- 
ing and soaring in pursuit of flying 
insects just as they had seen them in 
England. And besides these familiar 
birds, they now made acquaintance for 
the first time with many others which 
they had never: seen before, Bec 
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