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followed them to the nests by the northern ponds, 

 where they could carefully guard and conceal their 

 precocious broods, where, helpless in the moulting 

 season, many would fall easy victims of hungry 

 Esquimaux and Indians, and where, with renewed 

 strength, they would respond again to the strong call 

 of the land of perpetual summer* 



