60 LUNDY ISLAND. 



Unknowing of his sway and power misused : 



The clamours of their young 



Echoed in shriller cries, 

 Which rung in wild discordance round the rock. 



And farther as they now advanced, 

 The dim reflection of the darken'd day 



Grew fainter, and the dash 

 Of the out-breakers deaden'd ; farther yet, 



And yet more faint the gleam ; 

 And there the waters, at their utmost bound, 

 Silently rippled on the rising rock." 



("2%oZa&a,"xii. 8.) 



We proceeded silently and with caution, for we 

 were now approaching the principal chamber, the 

 place where seals would be found, if any happened to 

 be at home. But in order to enter this hall we must 

 pass through a gallery so narrow that a person could 

 only squeeze himself along it sidewise. It is just as 

 the foremost emerges from this passage that the seals 

 make their rush. Alarmed by the approaching foot- 

 steps, they wait with expectant gaze until the intruder 

 appears in their doorway. The sudden flash of light 

 from the candle into their obscurity is the signal for 

 their escape. With one bound the seal dashes at the 

 man, who, if he be not thoroughly prepared for the 

 shock, will inevitably be knocked over, while the seal 

 makes good his exit across the prostrate person of his 

 baffled invader. 



All this was described to us while one of the ser- 

 vants, a cool, resolute fellow, used to the warfare, was 

 exploring the passage, peering through the darkness, 

 with his light above his head, and a stout bludgeon 



