CRUISE OF LA BELLE MARGUERITE 



dirty white colour. At last we finished our 

 work of counting, photographing, and note- 

 taking, and, as we departed, we were glad to 

 see the great black aeroplanes sail gracefully 

 down to their unsavoury abodes. 



" As with his wings aslant, 

 Sails the fierce cormorant, 

 Seeking his rocky haunt, 

 With his prey laden," 



Milton in " Paradise Lost " offers a tribute to 

 the uncanny nature of this bird, when he says 

 of Satan: 



" Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life, 

 The middle tree and highest there that grew, 

 Sat like a cormorant." 



After this we hoped to explore Bald Island, 

 the home of the puffins, but the wind proving 

 unfavourable we deferred this visit for a future 

 time, and again turned our prow eastward 

 and soon passed a solitary house on the rocky 

 shore, which was used in the lobster fishery. 

 Here, beginning the first week in June, lobsters 

 are caught and canned. Farther to the east- 

 ward near the mouth of the Corneille River is 

 another house used by salmon-fishers. At last 



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