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trees, made known their presence above by disgorg- 

 ing a half -digested eel, which dropped with a thud 

 at our feet and occasionally nearer, suggesting the 

 advisability of carrying an umbrella. The vegeta- 

 tion beneath the well-populated trees was as white 





39. A view in the Heron rookery, looking upward from the ground to nests 

 and young, about eighty feet above. 



as though it had been liberally daubed with white- 

 wash, and the ground was strewn with blue-green 

 eggshells neatly broken in two across the middle ; 

 fish, principally eels, in various stages of digestion 



