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approach and swam nervously about in the 
water outside. Everywhere the water was 
dotted with eider ducks. 
The centre of the island consists of tangled 
forests and sphagnum bogs, and differs in no 
ways from the character of the mainland. On 
the borders of the bog-pools, eiders and great 
black-backed gulls were generally resting, their 
striking black and white plumage contrasting 
well with the vegetation. One could easily 
spend a whole summer on this one island, and 
not discover all its secrets. 
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