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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