CHAPTER VI. 



CLIFF-BIRDS, AND THEIR COLONIES. 



|BOUT forty miles from the 

 western coast of Scotland 

 lies the island of Canna. 



It is one of the Smaller Hebrides. 

 Very few people know of it; still 

 fewer people go there. One or two 

 yachts seek shelter in its harbour ; 

 one or two steamers touch at its 

 pier for the barrels of salt herrings 

 which the fishermen have piled 

 ready for the southern markets ; 

 a few visitors to the Laird's house 

 come in the summer-time. 



And that is all as far as humans 

 go. 



But for the Cliff-birds it is a sort 



