IN THE CAPE SABLE WILDERNESS 
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NEST AND YOUNG OF THE WOOD IBIS, BUILT ON THE TOPS OF THE MANGROVES 
Taking an occasional rest, during one of which Bradley 
climbed to the nest of a Red-shouldered Hawk in a slender 
tree, bringing the one young hawk down for me to photo¬ 
graph, and returning it again to its home, about noon we were 
rejoiced to catch sight, through the trees, of the lake, which 
we began to fear we had missed. It was about a mile long, 
with densely wooded shores, a mere layer of water over a bed 
of soft mud. L^p near the farther end we could see an islet 
with a lot of snow-white birds roosting on the trees. As we 
paddled out toward it in the canoe, several alligators appeared 
ahead of us, swimming desperately in their race for deeper 
water and supposed security. Now and then they would raise 
and turn their snouts to get an observation of our progress, 
then paddle away again. Poor brutes, they know that their 
hides are wanted for purposes not agreeable to them ! 
