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breeding-places, and removed much farther north, in 

 search of peaceful security. Scarcely, in fact, could I 

 procure a young guillemot before the eggers had left the 

 coast, nor was it until late in July that I succeeded, after 

 the birds had laid three or four eggs each instead of one, 

 and when nature having been exhausted, and the season 

 nearly spent, thousands of these birds left the country 

 without having accomplished the purpose for which they 

 had visited it. This war of extermination cannot last 

 many years more. The eggers themselves will be the 

 first to repent the entire disappearance of the myriads of 

 birds that made the coast of Labrador their summer resi- 

 dence, and unless they follow the persecuted tribes to the 

 northward they must renounce their trade." 



