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feet can propel and steer ; how the 

 briny deep should not be a terror, 

 but a joy. 



For many days the lessons con- 

 tinuejust a splash in the surf the 

 first day ; half a mile of a swim the 

 second ; then a stretch that increases 

 every time until the young ones have 

 learned the full use of their muscles, 

 and are sufficiently strong to endure 

 the full roughness of the sea. Be it 

 remembered that, in the latitudes 

 where the Penguins live, the Pacific 

 Ocean is pacific only in name. No- 

 where do mightier surges sweep and 

 rise ; nowhere do the waves sink and 

 swell in such mountainous heaps as 

 off the terrific " Horn," and around 

 the dreary cliffs and regions of the 

 Antarctic Pole. 



From a Penguin point of view, 

 their land-homes at least are not 

 dreary. Their colonies are enormous. 

 At one place on Macquarie Island 

 the multitude of birds in the breed- 



