272 WITH THE WOODLANDERS. 



Company was a power in the land then, and some 

 who sailed in their magnificent ships brought boxes 

 of splendid bird - skins home for their sisters, as 

 well as drawings by native artists of the birds 

 that the boxes contained. When these drawings 

 were carefully traced off, the result was very 

 superior in all respects to the work of our local 

 genius. 



As I said before, the boys had little to do with 

 the affairs of their parents from the confidential 

 point of view ; and fine young fellows, men every 

 inch of them, were classed as boys. And I can 

 assure my readers that this sort of thing has not 

 yet quite died out along the foreshores. Those 

 lads who had visited foreign shores were eagerly 

 sought out by the fowler when they reached port. 

 From morning to night they yarned away about 

 birds, questioning, comparing, and wondering; for 

 the lads had seen birds as they were coming and 

 going that the fowler had only seen on the shores. 

 Practical natural history would be fully discussed 

 sitting on the sides of a turned-up whale-boat. 



I think that, if it could be got at, the list of 

 unrecorded birds that have visited us would far 



