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noon, but for the three following days the guests at 
the hotel were aware of the fact that we had paid a 
visit to the whaling station ! 
Next year, instead of going to the Hebrides, I went 
to Cornwall, and here I had numerous opportunities 
for photographing some of our commoner food fishes. 
During this particular trip my brother and I did a 
certain amount of sea-bird photography, and we photo- 
graphed one particular common gull from the time it 
hatched until it left the ledge of rock upon which the 
nest had been built. It was a pretty sight to see the 
young bird peering over the edge of the cliff into the 
sea below, wondering how long it would be before he 
could fish for himself. 
My next photographic holiday was spent at Port 
Erin, and to this place, in addition to the tanks already 
described, I took a large tank which, as a rule, I only 
use at home. And here I would give a word of warn- 
ing to those using large glass tanks in hot weather. 
This tank, which held several hundredweight of water, 
was set up just behind the biological station. Here the 
sun blazed upon the glass, while the cold sea-water 
from a large storage tank ran through it to the plaice 
ponds beyond. My brother and I had been working 
in front of this tank all the morning, and had only just 
left to go home to lunch. When not a hundred yards 
from the station we heard a terrific bang, and running 
back found that the tank had burst, and that huge 
pieces of half-inch plate glass had been thrown a dis- 
